Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months, Yeltsin had tried repeatedly to negotiate an accord on power sharing between the executive and legislative branches, but Khasbulatov, once a Yeltsin protege and advocate of reform, paid no attention. Even on the eve of last week's Congress, the presidential team gave fifty-fifty odds that a compromise could be reached. They were hopelessly optimistic. congressional Deputies who filed into the hall were so sour about reform that they refused even to consider a motion to remove Karl Marx's rallying cry, "Workers of the World, Unite," from the Russian Federation's national emblem. In the face...
Escobar reportedly has agreed to turn himself in to Colombian authorities in return for the safe passage of his wife and two children to the U.S. DEA officials deny that the U.S. has agreed to such a deal. But any accord that is eventually cut with the Colombian government, they warn, could well portend a new narco era dominated by -- who else? -- Pepes...
...Havel will preside from the same office in Prague's Hradcany Castle over about two-thirds of his former country. The onetime playwright and erstwhile communist-era dissident promised to maintain a "moral dimension" in his government and to serve as a "more experienced and wiser" statesman in promoting accord with his nation's new neighbor, Slovakia...
...Bosnia. "The Serbs are not going to cease firing until satiated," says a State Department official. After more than nine months of fighting, an estimated 125,000 have been killed, more than a million refugees are homeless, and Bosnian Serbs hold 70% of the republic. An internationally sanctioned accord now would reward the Serbs, who make up only 31% of the Bosnian population, for their aggression. Milosevic would then be another de facto step closer to his dream of creating a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia...
...tapped by President Anwar Sadat as a senior policy adviser and was named acting Foreign Minister when two foreign ministers resigned in protest over Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem in 1977. Boutros-Ghali played a prominent role in the negotiations that led to the 1979 Camp David accord on the Middle East...