Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fact. All three principals, however, would probably agree on one key fact: the Sinai talks were indeed closer to a make-or-break point than ever before. Both Egypt and Israel were anxious to reach an accord, although even small details in dispute could stall any agreement. But with two weeks remaining before the expiration of the latest mandate for United Nations peacekeeping troops in Sinai, there was still time for additional "clarification"-or for more hands to be played in what one Israeli diplomat called "a giant poker game with stupendous stakes...
...doubt [that] it is possible to achieve another interim agreement with Syria because geography and topography do not allow the kind of maneuverability we have in the Sinai. However, if efforts at an interim accord with Syria fail, it should not affect the behavior of Egypt. Cairo should be bound regardless of what happens between Israel and Syria. If an interim agreement with Syria is not reached, it should not prompt the U.S. to begin any new reassessment of the Middle East situation...
...AFTERMATH OF AN ACCORD...
...expect a relaxed period of several years-no pressure, no threats. An accord has to give some years of relative tranquillity. After that, seeing what will happen in Egypt and other parts of the Arab world, we will be ready to negotiate in a very detailed and prolonged way on the elements of an overall agreement. But whatever may happen in these talks about an overall agreement -especially if they do not succeed or if they come to a deadlock-Egypt has to behave in accordance with the interim agreement...
...Minnesota Twins. Blackmun's elevation to the court from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals was prompted by Burger's endorsement, and in Blackmun's first term the two differed on only 10% of the cases. They have never again been so much in accord, but a key split took place last July after the Chief wrote a draft of the court's unanimous opinion in U.S. v. Nixon, the explosive Executive privilege case. Most of the Justices found major sections of Burger's version sadly wanting, and Byron White and Potter Stewart prepared...