Word: accords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accord with their rigorous faith, the clean-cut singers perform no non- Christian material onstage and book no secular dates after sundown each Friday because of their church's Jewish-style Sabbath observance. They shun alcohol and tobacco and try to maintain daily devotionals and to give one- tenth of their income to the church...
...accord is carried out, it will mark the first time a Communist government has voluntarily ceded a major share of power to the opposition. Not only would Solidarity and other opposition groups be free to compete for seats in the 98-member senate, but there would also be liberalized elections to the Sejm in which non-Communists could win up to 35% of the 460 seats. The two chambers would then elect the President. Details of the pact will not be unveiled until April 3, but both sides have already agreed to June parliamentary elections...
...into any himself. But Baker's surefootedness was notably lacking last week. In his first frantic foreign foray as the nation's top diplomat, the up-close-and-personal touch that has served Baker so well with Congress and the press did not play very well. And a new accord by five Central American Presidents caught the Secretary uncharacteristically off- stride...
Nonetheless, Gesell accepted the accord, Thornburgh got the Supreme Court to vacate the stay he had requested, and everything seemed set for the trial to begin. But hardly to run smoothly: the North defense can be expected to seize every opportunity to delay or perhaps scuttle the trial. And such opportunities will be legion. Lawyer Sullivan ("I'm not a potted plant") has asserted that classified information "pervades" the charges against North. The heart of his defense is that North acted solely on orders from, or at least with the permission of, higher authority -- and that the orders or permission...
...State Department officials. At the American Club in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, a hangout for aid workers, diplomats and intelligence types, the champagne was already flowing. Still, the U.S. has difficult decisions to make in the months ahead, as do the Soviets. In the ten months since the accord was signed in Geneva securing the Soviet withdrawal, the operating word has been "symmetry." Last week the Bush Administration held a one-hour high-level review of U.S. policy toward Afghanistan that resulted in no announced changes. That means that Washington would continue to fund and arm the rebels...