Word: accords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration immediately lodged a strong protest with the Soviet ambassador here, saying the vessels had done nothing provocative and were operating in accord with international...
...Gephardt camp was poised for battle as rumors spread that Paul Simon's team was about to run nasty TV spots. As it turned out, Simon rejected deployment of the negative ads. His aides, however, laughed about the Gephardt campaign's "paranoia." For the moment there is a tentative accord. Simon Campaign Director Brian Lunde got a call from Gephardt's chief, Bill Carrick, proposing a "no first use" agreement. Says Lunde: "Carrick offered that they wouldn't go negative if we didn...
...Arias peace plan signed in Guatemala by five Central American Presidents has made one certain contribution to the endless debate about contra aid: a new vocabulary. All sides must now make their case in the ritual language of the Guatemala accord. Opponents of contra aid say they are simply fulfilling the part that calls for an end to outside aid to insurgents. (Cutting off Nicaraguan aid to the Salvadoran insurgents is left to the appropriate Nicaraguan parliamentary committees.) The Administration, for its part, portrays contra aid as a mere "insurance policy" to save the peace plan in case the Sandinistas...
Neither side is impolite enough to note that the Guatemala accord has already expired. It was always more a hope than a plan. It had no enforcement mechanism. It has formally abolished its international verification commission. And three weeks ago it, in effect, abolished itself: the plan, said the communique of the five Central American Presidents gathered to assess its progress, had not been implemented, but no deadlines were extended. The U.S. Congress, with its vote this week on contra aid, has by default been designated to make the final judgment on Sandinista compliance...
...have denounced it as sabotaging the peace process. More aid would have allowed them to continue hiding behind the screen that the contra war, and not their own pathetic fiscal mismanagement, is to blame for the searing poverty and economic woes that afflict the Nicaraguan people. The delicate peace accord would have collapsed, and the United States would have been accused by the international community as the "saboteur of the peace...