Word: accords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wright said Tuesday that Congress had received "clear testimony" that the administration sought to secretly undermine the Nicaraguan peacemaking process, thus damaging long-term prospects for an accord between Ortega's ruling Sandinistas and the Contra rebels...
...federal lands to be turned over to native peoples in the western subarctic end of the region that stretches across the top of North America. Along with two other agreements covering parts of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon expected next spring, the accord appears to be the largest land transfer since the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia...
...genuine worker-government accord still seems distant. No schedule has been set for the round-table talks. Although Solidarity will probably not be tolerated as a national movement that could challenge the regime's authority once again, the union may eventually be permitted to act on the factory level...
...accord vindicates Crocker's tenacious, realpolitik brand of diplomacy. A former director of African studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Crocker was hired by the State Department in 1981 and assumed the job of finding a solution to the turmoil in Africa...
After more than a dozen years of rising concern and controversy, governments are finally taking steps to protect the earth's delicate ozone layer. Last week it was the U.S.'s turn. In line with an international accord drafted last September and signed by 37 nations, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered production limits on chemicals that are depleting the ozone in the upper atmosphere. Decreased levels of ozone, scientists have warned, would allow more ultraviolet radiation to reach the earth's surface and increase the incidence of skin cancer and other diseases. Under the new ruling, U.S. producers of halon...