Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring home their 115,000 troops. Both the Soviet-backed regime of Afghan Leader Najibullah and the government of Pakistan, which supports the mujahedin rebels, predicted that the Geneva negotiations expected to resume in March under United Nations auspices would be the "last round" leading to a final agreement. But a sharply worded declaration from the guerrillas, blasting the Geneva talks and casting serious doubt on their willingness to accept a compromise settlement, dimmed hopes last week for a solution...
...meeting dragged into the next day as the leaders bargained and bickered over a round table. Arias' frustration surfaced Saturday after a morning swim before the session resumed. Said the dejected summit host: "I did everything I could. We all knew that if we failed to come to an agreement, the war would continue." Before the day was over, however, the tide had turned and Arias' reputation as a peacemaker had regained its luster...
...Joaquin Chamorro, sit on the six-member board that directs the contras' political affairs and produces a steady stream of anti-Sandinista propaganda. The next day Arias counterbalanced his anti-contra blast with a blunt four-page letter accusing Nicaragua's Ortega of failing to comply with the peace agreement. While the Sandinistas allowed a single opposition newspaper, La Prensa, to reopen last October, they have shown little readiness to allow broader political freedoms. Admonished Arias: "There is no room for legal structures that deny democratic process...
...test of Lee's China policy will be his handling of trade and travel ties to Hong Kong as the British colony prepares to revert to mainland rule in 1997. According to an agreement signed by Britain and China in 1984, Hong Kong will be allowed to retain its capitalist system for 50 years, as well as a large measure of local control. Many Taiwanese will be watching Hong Kong's < experience for guidance on how to handle their future relations with the mainland. While a Taiwanese reunification even as tenuous as Hong Kong's is by no means inevitable...
...defense of NATO's southern flank. But Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez insisted that the withdrawal was necessary to comply with a promise to reduce the U.S. military presence in Spain in return for passage of a 1986 referendum endorsing the country's continued membership in NATO. Agreement on the F-16 issue should also smooth the way for a new treaty that will allow continued U.S. access to other bases on Spanish soil...