Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strapped a gun on his hip and slung two bandoliers of cartridges over his shoulder. The precautions proved unnecessary: during round-the-clock talks, the government not only bargained in good faith, but gave in on all but the most outlandish rebel demands. The result was a tentative peace accord that is something of a landmark for Mexico...
...Chiapas itself, there is no guarantee that the accord will pass muster among Zapatista supporters, and many point out that they have no assurances that the government's promises will last beyond the Aug. 21 elections. If the paper promises do not produce action, rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos vowed to launch another offensive in the Zapatista...
Ever since the September peace accord was signed on the White House lawn, radical settlers, especially from the Kahane movement, have been loudly announcing their determination to take matters into their own hands to stop the delivery of land they consider their biblical birthright into the hands of the Palestinians. Settlers in Hebron have been caught on videotape firing repeatedly on Palestinian stone throwers. Jewish militants have stopped Palestinians on the roads and harassed them. The Israeli army for the most part has stood by, doing nothing to subdue them...
...over the past five months in Paris, Cairo and the Egyptian resort town of Taba. He proposed the two sides keep their negotiators in the U.S. capital until they get not just an agreement to agree or an agreement in principle, but an i's-dotted, t's-crossed accord. Said the President: "We must prevent them ((fanatic extremists)) from extinguishing the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people for a life of peaceful existence...
...getting something out of the peace process -- and that Jerusalem must make some concessions to help. "Paradoxically ((the massacre)) may hasten the peace process because Israel will be under pressure to finish the negotiations as soon as possible," says Ariel Merari, an expert on political violence. To get an accord, he predicts, Israel will "have to make more concessions than it meant to make...