Word: accords
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...from Jerusalem. "The Israeli government's hands are virtually tied. They can't get the settlers out of Hebron voluntarily, and it would be political suicide to force them out. Hebron is holding up the peace talks." Today's violence came on the second anniversary of the Israeli-PLO accord, signed in Oslo in 1993. Hebron is the main obstacle between Israel and the PLO as they negotiate on expanding Palestinian autonomy to the West Bank. Because of the incident, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chief Yasser Arafat postponed a meeting on Hebron until the weekend. Israel wants...
...parties agree to a peace plan. America would then have avoided its nightmare scenario--sending in 25,000 soldiers to help U.N. forces withdraw from Bosnia while the war is on. That's great, but there is a catch. The Clinton Administration has also pledged that if a peace accord is signed, the U.S. will send 25,000 troops to Bosnia to help enforce it. No doubt that is a safer mission than covering a U.N. retreat. Still, at his office in Naples, U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, who is in charge of nato's Southern Command, has two documents, each...
...moreout of exhaustionthan in victory. The peace agreement does nothing to addressthe underlying cause of the war: the issue of Chechen independence."Although both sides have made noises about talks, nothing concrete has happened." Nor is an agreement likely soon. Chechen leader Jokhar Duduyev has already denounced the accord, Donnelly notes, while theRussian government fears the political repercussions of Chechen independence."This is really a crucial time for the Russian confederation. There are a quite a few republics -- Tatarstan, for instance -- that are rich in natural resources and pretty self-sufficient. They're paying taxes to Moscow, and getting little...
...observation at a time when Arafat looks poised to win an expansion of his authority. For the past year the Palestinians have enjoyed limited self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho. Now negotiators are scrambling to meet this week's deadline for an accord that would detail a timetable for Palestinian elections as well as a redeployment of the Israeli army in the West Bank. The original deadline for the new agreement was July 1, but that slipped to July 25 and may slip again. The killing last week of two Israeli hikers...
ForIsraeli and PLOofficials, keeping the emerging West Bank accord on track after a terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv last week may have been the easy part. Now, they must convince Jewish settlers -- many of whom have occupied a local hilltop in protest -- to leave the territory. Today, in the biggest clash so far between authorities and West Bank settlers, hundreds of Israeli police and soldiers climbed the Dagan Hill and dragged them down by the dozens, only to watch them run back up. After several hours, hot and weary police and soldiers carried the settlers down again. (At least...