Word: accords
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...myriad looted artworks left over from the war, there is only one ethical course open to the Russian authorities: they must honor Russia's signature on the 1954 and 1990 accords and let the works go back to Germany -- on condition that the Germans return a proportionate amount of the things they swiped. It would be intolerable for President Yeltsin to give in to the pressure of the ultranationalists and nostalgic apparatchiks who want to keep the looted art in Russia as "reparations." Theft is theft. But there may be capital to be made from letting...
...granddaddy of the Nobel awards -- the peace prize -- will go to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen...
...professors, all of whom are involved in refugee and human rights issues, wrote in their September 22 missive that the terms of the present accord with Haiti are insufficient for a variety of reasons, but primarily because of the agreement's failure to fully demilitarize the aggressors...
Mahran knows that his own country, which crowds 62 million people into a narrow strip of arable land the size of the Netherlands, provides a sobering reality check for the idealistic premises of the Cairo accord. Egypt imports 70% of its food, yet each year it loses thousands of acres of farmland to urban sprawl and overuse. The nation will somehow have to find food, water and jobs for an additional 37 million people over the next 30 years...
...Muslim nations said to other Muslim nations, 'It's O.K. to support family planning,' as did Catholic nations to other Catholic nations." Thus, the consensus achieved in Cairo may allow the world community to move beyond divisive debates about abortion and contraception in dealing with the population juggernaut. The accord may signal a new, more mature approach to confronting a potential global disaster...