Word: accords
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...expected signatures on a document to satisfy extremists. No one thought a peace agreement would end all fear. But it was hoped that a peace agreement would bring something like peace. It has not, and as a result, Israelis and Palestinians alike are near despair over their famous accord signed in Washington less than two years...
...relief from Palestinian fury but today find that violence is worse than before. The Palestinians wanted real control over their own lives but today find them as dominated by Israel as ever. Pollsters of both sides in recent weeks report that an increasing majority no longer support the peace accord...
...poll conducted in late April found that only 45% of Israelis still favored the peace accord. At the time it was signed, 61% favored it. Other recent polls show Israelis consistently preferring Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the opposition Likud Party, over Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Netanyahu is harshly critical of the peace agreement and has said he considers it a dead letter because of Palestinian violations. Most Palestinians -- 69% by one survey -- approved of the agreement when it was made. Now only 40% report satisfaction with it, according to a poll released last week by the Jerusalem Media and Communications...
Last November a U.S. customs inspector in El Paso, Texas, had a funny feeling about a Honda Accord that was attempting to cross from Mexico into the U.S. He motioned the car over to take a closer look, and the driver leaped out and disappeared down the street. When the El Paso police opened the trunk, they discovered three bodies: those of Josa Munoz Rubalcava, a retired Mexican police official, and his two sons, Alberto, 24, and Casar, 21. Someone had stabbed all three men in the back, trussed them with rope and added a macabre finishing touch...
...Hamas leader. The bombings, near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, injured more than 40 people. Alisa Flatow, a 20-year-old junior at Brandeis University on vacation for Passover, died today of her wounds. Arafat's police chief, meanwhile, said the militant opposition to the Israel-PLO peace accord now amounts to just 150 gunmen who could easily be rounded...