Word: accords
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...escarpment to a height of 2,970 ft. on the Syrian-Israeli border, the Golan commands all the low ground that constitutes northern Israel. Syria repeatedly shelled Israeli kibbutzim from the Heights in the 1960s. Not a shot has been fired there since Henry Kissinger brokered a troop- separation accord in 1974, but poised on both sides are thousands of tanks, a bristling reminder of the state of war that has existed between Syria and Israel since...
Peres, an instrumental figure in last September's Israel-PLO accord and a negotiator in the talks about Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho, will speak on "An Arab-Israeli Peace: A Promise for the Future...
...last Monday, real peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians was supposed to begin. That was the day on which, under the terms of the accord signed on the White House lawn in September, the Israelis were to start withdrawing troops from the Gaza Strip. The withdrawal has been delayed, but to demonstrate their scorn for the deadline before it had even passed, members of Islamic Jihad, an extremist Muslim fundamentalist group, decided to deploy a weapon only recently borrowed from Muslim radicals elsewhere -- the suicide car bomber. So early Monday morning at a highway intersection just outside the Gaza...
...Geneva. The mid-January summit, which is expected to bring the Syrians back to Washington's bargaining tables by February, will enable Assad to project the statesmanlike image he craves. And it will also give him a chance to explain to Clinton his reservation about the Arafat-Rabin accord...
Benumbed at first by the suddenness of the peace accord, the settlers became increasingly restive. But their noisy protests had little impact on the rest of the population until last week, when the killings pushed the government to treat their demands for protection with fresh urgency. At the same time, Rabin knows he must tame his own rampaging citizens if he is to work out security arrangements with the Palestinians...