Word: according
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...heartland cut through the din of New Year's Eve revelry. But the bursts were not the usual barrage of death. Instead, rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front were sending up a celebratory salvo on learning that their negotiators had at last arrived at a peace accord with the conservative government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
...redemption that awaits all believers. Theologian Donald Bloesch of the University of Dubuque says fellow conservative Protestants "need to see Mary as the pre-eminent saint" and "the mother of the church." Similar convergences will receive a thorough airing in February, when U.S. Catholic and Lutheran negotiators issue an accord, years in the making, on Mary's role...
...accord, the largest native land-claim settlement ever, will carve a new territory to be called Nunavut (Our Land) out of the 770,000 sq. mi. that makes up the eastern two-thirds of the Northwest Territories, where 17,500 Inuit live. The Inuit will gain mineral rights on 14,000 sq. mi. but will give up other subsurface claims in exchange for $1 billion...
...accord calls for the two countries to re-establish links in the form of roads and communications. They will also set up a liaison office to help reunite some 10 million families separated by the peninsula's hostilities from 1950 to 1953 and the long standoff that followed. These human bonds have long been sought by South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and opposed by the xenophobic regime of North Korea's Kim Il Sung. Pyongyang's about-face seems to reflect its concern over growing diplomatic isolation and sharp setbacks to its own economy...
...movie and the Warren report are interestingly symmetrical: the Warren Commission was stolidly, one might say pathologically, unsuspicious, while in every scene of the Stone film conspiracy theories writhe underfoot like snakes. In a strange way, the two reports balance one another out. It may be ridiculous to accord Stone's movie a status coequal with the Warren report. On the other hand, the Warren report has endured through the years as a monolith of obscure suppression, a smooth tomb of denial. Stone's movie, for all its wild gesticulations, at least refreshes the memory and gets a long- cold...