Word: agreement
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Considerably more dismayed, though in agreement with Sullivan, was Colgate coach Jack Bruen...
CASPER, WYOMING: Newt Gingrich sent stock and bond prices tumbling with a public prediction that congressional Republicans and the White House would not arrive at a balanced-budget compromise before Election Day. "I think the odds are better than even as of today that there will be no agreement," the House Speaker said Wednesday from Casper, Wyoming. "It may just be that we need one more election." Minutes after his comments, stock prices dropped 35 points. By the end of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 97.19 points, a steep decline that compounded a 67.55-point drop...
...State Warren Christopher joined Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein in inviting Syrian President Hafez Assad to seize what Peres called "the galloping prospect of peace." Christopher on Friday will travel to Damascus to try to persuade Assad to follow Hussein and reach a peace agreement with Israel. "Hussein's visit, his first since Yitzhak Rabin's funeral, is seen by the local commentators as sending a clear message to Assad to join in the increasing warming of Israel's relationships with its Arab neighbors," Dean Fischer reports from Jerusalem. The Syrian president may want...
Some 800 Palestinian prisoners walked out of Israeli prisons Wednesday as part of the country's peace agreement with the PLO. Members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were freed along with Palestinians convicted of petty crimes. Israel has freed more than 7,000 prisoners since making peace with the PLO in September 1993. Israel and the PLO will decide the fate of the more than 2,800 that remain in custody during talks on final status of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem scheduled to begin...
JERUSALEM: U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry has told Israel and Syria that if both countries make the request, American troops will help secure peace in the Golan Heights following a peace agreement. Although Syria has yet to respond, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was enthusiastic, asserting that such a force could serve as a symbolic deterrent, not a fighting force. "We have never asked for American soldiers to defend our lives, and we are not going to ask this sort of participation in the future," he said. Dispute over the Golan, which Israel wrested from Syria in the 1967 Mideast...