Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peres: Although I feel that there is enough room to reach an agreement, I do not close my eyes [to the difficulties]. I know that there are major problems and that some are objectively difficult to solve. In my talks with President Sadat, I got the impression that there is no real call for the redivision of Jerusalem. Yet the Arab position is to demand their own flag raised in the city. Concerning changes on the frontiers, Sadat does distinguish between the Sinai, which has a recognized international border, and the West Bank, where all the lines resulted from wars...
...when Emmet Andrews, head of the American Postal Workers Union, emerged bleary-eyed from behind closed doors at the offices of the Federal Mediation Service. After a tense, all-night bargaining session that capped 17 weeks of talks between the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 unionized employees, agreement had been reached on a new three-year contract...
...postal workers' agreement, for which the Administration had tirelessly lobbied, is a small but significant departure from those egregious gains. It is also a good deal more moderate than what the postal workers had originally demanded, and could well wind up giving them somewhat lower increases than they enjoyed under their last contract...
...most immediate progress came on noneconomic issues. Japanese Premier Takeo Fukuda popped a surprise idea for an agreement among the Seven that would sever airline traffic with any nation encouraging or harboring terrorist hijackers. The proposal passed unanimously...
...plan now goes to the U.N. Security Council for formal approval, probably late next week. Though the Western powers would have preferred immediate action to forestall an incident that could upset the fragile agreement, it was decided to wait until after the Organization of African Unity summit this week, when the continent's leaders are expected to give it their blessing...