Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second main facet of the agreement is the creation of an executive agent, who will report to Kidd on issues of safety and some financial issues and to the board on programmatic issues. While that position is not entirely a boon to PBHA's autonomy, since the person will be chosen by both the board and Kidd, it provides PBHA with an institutionalized advocate...
...public service programming. An infrastructure including a board with non-student members, an executive agent and an assistant dean for public service is not something to be changed lightly, and any modifications from this point on will hopefully be made in the spirit of compromise in which this agreement was forged...
Then in late July a new player entered the picture. Iran--plagued by cross-border raids from a faction of Iranian Kurds in Talabani's territory--launched an incursion with the agreement of Talabani, who needed money and weapons for his campaign against Barzani. In exchange, Tehran left him a large cache of weapons. That, said Barzani, is what scared him into his unthinkable alliance with Saddam. Still, Kurdish alliances can change in minutes. Barzani has already passed a message to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, saying he threw in with the Kurds' old tormentor only to counterbalance Iranian military...
...voters to toe the line and other voters to stay away. Kujundzic and other Bosnian Serb leaders remain determined to gain independence for the territory they seized at the beginning of the war. The two most important preconditions for free and fair elections laid out in the peace agreement--freedom of movement and the return of refugees--have not been met. Almost no Muslims or Croats live in the Republika Srpska, and discrimination against Serbs is widespread in the federation put together by Muslims and Croats, who themselves live in ethnic enclaves...
...trampled other preconditions for fair elections as well: blocking freedom of association and freedom of expression. Forty miles east of Doboj, in Tuzla, for example, the ruling Muslim Party of Democratic Action (S.D.A.) has disrupted opposition rallies and oppressed non-S.D.A. members with brazen disregard for the Dayton agreement. Until last month, Merdzana Fisca, a Bosnian Muslim belonging to an anti-S.D.A. party, was director of a Tuzla detergent factory that survived the war in mint condition under her leadership. One day she arrived at work to find her office locked with all her personal belongings inside...