Word: agreement
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Even if by some miracle the squabbling mujahedin political leaders and their allied military field commanders reach agreement, their determined resistance to any Communist representation in the new government all but ensures that Najibullah will continue to struggle for his political life. Last week, his voice cracking uncharacteristically, Najibullah proclaimed, "God is with us. The people are with us. We will win the war." But the extent of the President's fear was evident as the regime summoned the 30,000 members of the ruling People's Democratic Party who have been newly armed with automatic rifles and are intended...
Since his Inauguration, Bush has been trying to keep intact the tacit gentlemen's agreement forged by his fuzzy call for an era of bipartisanship and high ethical standards: if everyone in power would just get along with everyone else in power, all would be well. A 51% federal salary increase would quietly take effect, the Cabinet could be swiftly and pleasantly confirmed, sleaze would disappear in a warm glow of mutual trust. If everyone would make the same rosy economic assumptions, money would be found to pay for the savings and loan cleanup just unveiled and the budget just...
Whatever happens to tourism, the devastation from the oil spill could be a serious setback to the idea of oil and mineral exploration in Antarctica. Last May, 33 nations drafted an agreement that would eventually open the area to mining and drilling. That treaty, which the U.S. Senate will consider for ratification in the next few months, is vigorously opposed by a broad coalition of environmental groups. Any hopes that the Senate will approve the agreement may have sunk with the Bahia Paraiso...
...Middle East. You think we'll ever be able to get a peace agreement over there...
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who did not go to Moscow for the conference but followed it closely, added his agreement, then explained it in his tough, clear fashion. "Evacuation under those circumstances is psychologically impossible," he said. "There is no way you are going to get people to leave their families and intimate friends and colleagues. I've thought about this a good deal, and I think there should be an alternate Government designated out around the country, perhaps using the Governors." A good idea. May there never be the need...