Word: accords
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...needed, beyond the current bare minimum of enlightenment. It is the administration's duty to support peer counseling groups such as Response; publicize sexual harassment dangers to students and seriously punish and publicize offenders; condemn, not tolerate, sexual harassment of employees like Charlotte Walters, who recently sued Harvard; accord women professors the respect they deserve with fair hiring, tenure-granting, and job-distributing practices...
...agreement, however, will not necessarily bring peace to Afghanistan, which has seen more than a million people killed since 1979 and at least 3 million, a sixth of the population, flee to neighboring Pakistan and Iran. In fact, last week's Tashkent accord may be just the opening bell for the war's final round. The main question remains unanswered: Who will control the country, the mujahedin or the forces of the Najibullah government? Moscow apparently feels that Najibullah can survive with Soviet military and economic aid or at least hold heavily fortified Kabul and a broad corridor leading north...
...arms supplies to the mujahedin at levels "symmetrical" to Moscow's support for Najibullah? "Unacceptable" was the response by Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze threatened a unilateral Soviet pullout without an agreement at Geneva. In the end, Gorbachev apparently decided that a formal accord was too important to lose. "What they needed was a fig leaf," observed a Western diplomat in Moscow. "This allows ((the Soviets)) to preserve their position of principle...
...accord calls for the return to Afghanistan of millions of Afghan refugees, most of whom moved to neighboring Pakistan...
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez hailed the Sapoa process as evidence that his regional peace accord, signed last August by five Presidents, is very much alive. "The peace plan was never dead," he said, "even though there may be some who wished to kill it." Arias is trying to build on the momentum of Sapoa, urging others to the bargaining table. Last week he met with members of Guatemala's leftist guerrilla coalition and agreed to act as a mediator in indirect negotiations with the government...