Word: accords
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...last-minute swerve away from a Haiti invasion isn't pleasing its chief beneficiary -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide. This morning the exiled Haitian President issued a terse statement that pointedly failed to mention the accord brokered Sunday by former President Jimmy Carter. Instead, he referred only to the 1993 Governors Island agreement that would have ousted the junta members who booted him two years earlier. Capitol Hill held no sympathy: "It's time for Jean-Bertrand Aristide to get real," a U.S. Representative said, voicing a common congressional sentiment. Carter didn't make things any easier for President Clinton. He said...
Meanwhile, Republican leader Dole, who last year endorsed Clinton's call for universal coverage and then supported Chafee's efforts for bipartisan accord, kept backing away from both men last week. During his travels around the country in recent weeks, Dole said, he has detected in the public mood that "health care has sort of disappeared from the radar screen as a big issue." Dole also cited the proximity of the October recess. "Every time you look at health care in that context, it looks smaller and smaller...
...guts and good looks of Detroit's new compacts that will have to do the hard work of rebuilding consumer loyalty. Ford, for one, is betting $6 billion in development costs that once people try the Contour and its cousins, they will never look at an Accord or Camry the same way again...
...interview with TIME editors today, the chief Cuban negotiator in Friday's agreement over the refugee crisis, Ricardo Alarcon, said the first U.S.-Cuban accord during Fidel Castro's three decades in power provides a toehold on more extensive relations. He said the next step-- if Cuba lives up to its promise to halt the 3,000-a-day refugee flow in return for 20,000 U.S. visas a year--would be talks on lifting the longtime U.S. embargo. U.S. officials downplay the possibility of lifting the three-decade-old embargo. "There is a paradox," the former Cuban Foreign Minister...
...Morocco became the second Arab country after Egypt to establish formal ties with Israel. The low-level diplomatic relations come after years of sketchy and often secret ties between the Jewish state and the North African country. Specifics of the arrangement sound a lot like the Israel-Jordan peace accord, with a strong focus on business interests. That's not surprising: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the breakthrough came in part because Morocco, like Jordan, wants to join the march toward regional economic cooperation...