Word: addresses
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After flying back to Tunis to consult with his aides on the weekend before his Geneva address, Arafat finally rejected advice from some Palestinians that he give up on the U.S. until Shultz was gone. That, Arafat decided, would stall the promising P.L.O. peace drive too long and ruin his impending hour on TV screens around the world. He accepted the wording worked out at the secret Stockholm meeting and incorporated some changes from the State Department's proposed language. Arafat informed the Swedes, who told Washington, that he would deliver the critical words...
...official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Israel believed Arafat failed to fulfill the conditions laid down by the United States for recognition of the PLO, both in his address to the United Nations on Tuesday or at a news conference in Geneva yesterday...
...There was more ambiguity in this speech than in Algiers," he said, referring to Arafat's address last month to the Palestine National Council. "I do not see any major departure...ambiguity and more ambiguity...
...Gorbachev apparently had second thoughts about carrying the campaign against the Estonians any further. In his 70-minute opening address, he dropped a prepared passage that would have heaped more criticism on the Baltic republic. Instead, he acknowledged that some provisions of the draft laws had been "formulated imprecisely" and proposed the establishment of a commission to "scrutinize point after point" the separation of powers between the federal government and the republics...
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