Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sandinistas the choice is clear. If they would free their country from North American domination, if they would plan their economy with the needs of their people and not the profits of the wealthy in mind, if they would broaden the bases of political participation and accord each man and woman in all Nicaragua the respect and dignity that each merits--the Sandinistas must fight. If they would feed the hungry and create meaningful work for the poor, if they would repatriate the parachutists, who are outcasts in their own land, if they would draw upon their own resources...
When the Vietnam peace accord was signed over two years ago it was welcomed by the National Liberation Front not only as a harbinger of peace but as the chance for a people uprotted by war to return to their homes and to choose their own government. But the Provisional Revolutionary Government, the extension of the NLF, was denied access to the press and to free elections--both were provided for in the agreement. Land control in the PRG-controlled sectors moved ahead, there were no more privileged large landowners. But in areas controlled by the Thieu regime, there were...
...being developed, it should be able to skim great distances over land or water (as far as 1,500 miles). while eluding enemy radar defenses. (In contrast, ballistic missiles follow high, arcing trajectories, which make them more vulnerable to radar detection.) Because the recent Vladivostok arms-limitation accord does not specifically limit cruise missiles, some strategists are even beginning to think of them as first-strike weapons against Soviet missile silos or military bases...
...evidence that fiction told from a woman's point of view deserves the same accord as that told from a man's must come from women writers themselves. And, again, it does. The snide comment quoted above on the "feminine prose manner" comes from the inane anonymous introduction to a newly-reprinted collection of short stories by Tess Slesinger. The stories themselves, originally published during the thirties, stand in beautiful repudiation...
...West Bank solution will also be more difficult than a Sinai accord for political as well as strategic reasons. In order to entice Mafdal to join the government coalition. Rabin promised that "the people would be consulted" before any territorial concessions were made in the religiously important West Bank. Public opinion is sharply divided on the issue...