Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremony at the White House was meant to be a kind of revival meeting -a rekindling of the spirit of Camp David that led to the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement one year ago. But even as Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Vice President Hoshi Mubarak lavished praise on President Carter for his role in forging the historic accord, a potential new obstacle to the glacial peace process arose. With exquisitely bad timing, the Cabinet of Premier Menachem Begin chose the eve of the agreement's first birthday to rescind a twelve-year prohibition against land acquisitions...
...Joshua Nkomo, who control 20,000 armed guerrillas inside Zimbabwe Rhodesia. At week's end, the Front leaders had refused to say whether they would accept any safeguards for the white minority. Indeed, one guerrilla spokesman waspishly branded Muzorewa's acceptance of the British plan as "an agreement between a master and puppet...
...summit was back on the track. With some difficulty, a SALT understanding was concluded that limited defensive weapons like the ABM and put an outright freeze on deployment of new offensive missiles. The agreement quickly came under attack in the U.S. as too generous to the Soviets, who at the time enjoyed an advantage in certain categories of strategic missiles...
Basheer, a close friend and adviser of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, emphasizes that an eventual peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs must be fair to both sides. That means, Basheer said, that the final agreement should include provisions allowing the creation of an independent Palestinian state in occupied Israeli territory...
Basheer said he "welcomed" the efforts of President Carter, who mediated the Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel, and added that the "courage" of other Americans, including former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, was appreciated in Egypt. Young resigned his position earlier this year after a controversial meeting with PLO leaders...