Word: accords
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...accord followed discussions in New Delhi early this month between Jayawardene and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, during which the two leaders agreed to "defuse" the situation in Sri Lanka. Because the five insurgent organizations subscribing to the truce have their headquarters and operational commands in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, Gandhi is in a position to put pressure on them. Jayawardene, for his part, has ordered a review of the constitution, with an eye toward granting Sri Lanka's Tamils greater autonomy...
...decisive point and, I think, the weak point in the Mengele case," observes Rainer Knussmann, an anthropologist at the University of Hamburg. Mengele's 1938 dental records (a written description of the teeth, not including X rays), received last week from West Germany, proved to be "imprecise" and "incomplete," according to Ayrton Martini, director of the Sao Paulo state police scientific department. Also, there is scant information on a pelvic fracture Mengele is said to have suffered in a wartime motorcycle accident. The injury seems to accord with hip abnormalities found on the skeleton, but unless old X rays...
...agreement that was never ratified and is timed to expire Dec. 31 would hardly seem cause for high drama. But this document is the 1979 U.S.-Soviet accord reached in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, popularly known as SALT II. Despite its unratified status, both the Carter and Reagan Administrations pledged not to undercut it so long as Moscow did the same. Congress has demanded to know whether this policy will continue. After fierce debate within the Administration, Ronald Reagan planned to announce his decision early this week: the U.S. "basically" will comply with the terms, but is prepared...
...Moscow of developing two new strategic missiles, the ten-warhead SS-24 and the single-warhead SS-25, although the agreement allows only one. However, veteran Arms Negotiator Paul Warnke pointed out last week that the Soviets have also dismantled 1,000 ICBMs and twelve missile-launching submarines in accord with SALT II restrictions...
Embarrassment piled on embarrassment for the South African government last week after the ambush of a nine-man commando unit by Angolan troops. Reason: South Africa was supposed to have withdrawn the last of its soldiers from Angola in April under a U.S.-mediated accord. General Constand Viljoen, head of South Africa's Defense Forces, admitted that the country still had military units in Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit...