Word: agreement
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...result of an agreement between the license commission, Harvard Planning and Real Estate, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and university attorneys, Harvard will not have to control access to the building as long as it checks the identification of all customers to verify that food and beverages are sold only to students, faculty and staff...
...ourselves away from peace. It is the only way to give those who have chosen peace confidence that they have made the right choice." Peres thanked Clinton for the support the U.S. has given Israel and said he hoped today's pact will conclude "a history of bloodshed." The agreement was signed just one day before a scheduled White House visit from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Clinton said he would commend Arafat for last week's vote by the Palestine National Council to remove language in its charter that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. Peres also...
Clinton also declared a peace dividend following a pact by the world's seven wealthiest industrial nations plus Russia to seek a ban on nuclear testing by September. The same Moscow summit produced agreement on joint efforts to contain trafficking in nuclear materials. "Today we took yet another step back from the nuclear precipice," said the President. But environmental groups sharply criticized the summit for its failure to deal with a score of issues, including the shutdown of aging, Soviet-designed nuclear reactors. Meanwhile Russia reaffirmed its decision to sell nuclear-energy technology to Iran despite the Administration's protests...
...them in February after a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings made peace talks a political liability. Israelis and Syrians alike assumed the talks would begin again after the May 29 election, but the mess in Lebanon has raised doubts on all sides. Is Assad really interested in a peace agreement? If so, shouldn't he being keeping Lebanon quiet to avoid causing problems for Peres, who is more interested in peace treaties than opposition candidate Benjamin Netanyahu and his rightist Likud? Does this outbreak mean, as Israeli Cabinet minister Yossi Beilin suggested in Washington last week, that Assad...
...Israeli government is in a greater hurry. Despite the Qana debacle, Peres was determined to keep fighting as long as Hizballah continued its rocket salvos. The Israelis still hoped for an agreement shutting down those attacks and giving the Israeli army a freer hand against Hizballah. In return, as part of a peace treaty with Lebanon, Israel would be willing to discuss a pullout back inside Israel's borders if Hizballah were disarmed and no violence had occurred for some specified period...