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...between the two countries. Traditional enemies, divided by ethnic and ideological differences, Iraq and Iran had come to a temporary accommodation in 1975 when Saddam, then Vice President, and the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi announced a frontier agreement during an OPEC summit in Algiers. The centerpiece of the accord was a change in the status of the Shatt al Arab, long a source of friction between the two nations. Under the Algiers agreement, the border was moved from the Iranian side of the disputed waterway to the middle of the estuary; in return, the Shah agreed to stop...
...last week, however, a summer-long effort by the federal and provincial governments to reach accord on constitutional change had collapsed in acrimonious failure. At the end of a six-day summit around a horseshoe table in Ottawa-capped by a last-ditch private bargaining session in Trudeau's drawing room-the Prime Minister and the premiers reported that they had been unable to agree on a single point of Trudeau's agenda...
...amount of economic reform can succeed without a massive influx of foreign aid. As Poland's foremost trading partner and a major creditor ($550 million in hard-currency loans since May), the Soviet Union is a logical source. Warsaw accordingly dispatched a delegation to Moscow to seek assistance and explain the strike agreements. Headed by First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, the man who negotiated the Gdansk accord, the Polish envoys met first with Soviet trade officials. Jagielski then held a private meeting with Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Politburo's hard-lining ideologist; diplomats in Moscow had no doubt...
...major test for Party Leader Stanislaw Kania will be the way in which he handles the Gdansk agreement between workers and the government. The accord, vaguely worded in some key places, gives him a lot of maneuvering room, as these excerpts from the official text show...
Sadat the that such measures ran counter to the letter and spirit of the Camp David accord. He then recalled that he had proposed a formula that would restore Arab legal and historic rights in Jerusalem, but still keep the city united...