Word: agreement
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...signaled Engler's opposition to the congressional Republicans' five-years-and-you're-out philosophy. His fellow Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler, a notoriously hard bargainer, played "bad cop" on the Republicans' three-man negotiating team. He helped box the Democratic Governors into an agreement that could vex the Clintonites: it maintains the entitlement-trashing that appalls the Administration's liberal wing, but its Governors' seal of approval would make it excruciating for the President to veto any such legislation. It is the kind of product that could get its manufacturer tagged as a national...
...Senate Majority leader, a supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), refuted Buchanan's call for trade reduction by referring to the $3 million of American exports sent to Mexico each month. Dole explained that foreign trade is necessary for a healthy domestic economy...
SARAJEVO: U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke received a big bit of leverage for his weekend meeting in Rome with Balkan presidents with the discovery of what NATO officials call a terrorist camp near Sarajevo. Less than 48 hours before the Rome conference to boost compliance with the Dayton peace agreement was scheduled to begin, French soldiers raided a former ski chalet 20 miles west of Sarajevo and found nine men, including at least three Iranians, sitting atop an extensive arsenal of grenades, submachine guns, explosives and boobytrapped toys. The Iranians were in direct violation of the Dayton agreement, which said...
...supposedly open borders, says U.N. aid agency spokesman Kris Janowski. Draft-age men are also being prevented from crossing at some checkpoints, he said. In this atmosphere, the challenge for the U.S. and its allies in Rome will be to cool passions ignited by the arrests and reach an agreement that will ensure prosecution for war crimes without destroying the fragile federation between Serbs, Muslims and Croats in Bosnia...
...supposedly open borders, says U.N. aid agency spokesman Kris Janowski. Draft-age men are also being prevented from crossing at some checkpoints, he said. In this atmosphere, the challenge for the U.S. and its allies in Rome will be to cool passions ignited by the arrests and reach an agreement that will ensure prosecution for war crimes without destroying the fragile federation between Serbs, Muslims and Croats in Bosnia...