Word: accords
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...more evident in Belgium, which has been debating whether to deploy U.S. cruise missiles. To ensure that the basing plan went ahead, Kampelman, Tower and Glitman lobbied Prime Minister Wilfried Martens during a day trip to Brussels on Monday. On Friday, Martens announced Belgium would proceed because an accord on limiting INF missiles would be "impossible in the short term"; hours later, the first cruises arrived in the country...
...enough factory floors. Observes Robert d'Hondt, secretary-general of Belgium's Confederation of Christian Trade Unions: "The difficulty for us as leaders is to make our members understand that times have changed and that unions must change too." In December several French union officials reached a precedent-setting accord with the national employers' association that would have allowed companies greater flexibility in such matters as layoffs and working hours. No sooner had the agreement been signed than union militants at the local level forced their leaders to renege...
Mubarak's initiative grew out of an accord signed by Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein in Amman last month. That agreement, which el Baz helped draft, is an ambiguous document that calls for a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation to negotiate for Palestinian rights within "the proposed confederated Arab states of Jordan and Palestine." Though the accord does not specifically demand the creation of a separate Palestinian state, it offers little incentive to Israel to enter negotiations. Hussein and Arafat call upon Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territory--the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan...
Barely had the Amman accord been made public when P.L.O. leaders began issuing reservations. Farouk Kaddoumi, an Arafat confidant, insisted on the creation of a separate Palestinian state. Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, Arafat's spokesman, demanded that a unified Arab delegation, rather than simply a joint Jordanian-Palestinian team, negotiate with Israel. In a radio interview, Arafat said he appreciated Mubarak's efforts, but insisted on an international peace conference rather than bilateral talks with Israel...
...peace plan by Israel and much of the Arab world, U.S. officials remain skeptical that the Egyptian President can bring together the Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians, with or without the P.L.O.'s blessing. Nonetheless, State Department officials look forward to discussing both Mubarak's plan and the Hussein-Arafat accord with the Egyptian President when he visits Washington early next week. "What we see so far is just the beginning of a dialogue," explains a senior U.S. official. "It is still going in different directions. It would be a mistake for us to get involved until the pattern is clearer...