Word: accords
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Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, has taken on a different meaning for both Jewish and Islamic students this year with the signing of a peace accord Sunday between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which places almost all of the West Bank under Palestinian control...
While students of both religions expressed hope that this accord will lead to lasting peace in the territory, which has been under Israeli occupation for almost three decades, both groups remained skeptical about the agreement...
...Hoshanah, and if that happens you never know how Israeli radicals will retaliate." Under the agreement, Israeli troops will begin a withdrawal from Arab towns in the West Bank ten days after the deal is signed. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat will sign the accord in a White House ceremony on Thursday. "Although both sides want the photo op in Washington this week," says Allis, "it is clear that Rabin in particular needs it to maintain the shaky momentum of this process in the face of dwindling support among his people...
...congratulate the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) for hashing out a three-year labor agreement, after several months of negotiations. The accord represents a victory for compromise, coming much more quickly and with far less acrimony than the bitter negotiations on the last contract...
...ACCORD IN BOSNIA... Bosnia, Croatia and Yugo slavia--the latter acting for the Bosnian Serbs--reached an agreement that maintains Bosnia's territorial integrity but creates a separate Bosnian Serb state within its borders. The talks, held in Geneva, were "an important milestone in the search for peace," said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke. Further negotiations on the deal, which gives the aggressor Serbs a full 49% of Bosnia, are to resume this week...