Word: agreement
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Before the war, the British--who controlled Palestine under a League of Nations agreement--had restricted immigration to Palestine to 10,000 a year in 1936 in an effort to stem the growing conflict between Arabs and Jews settling in the region. They continued to block refugees throughout the war, when Jews wanted most to return to their ancient homeland...
...struggle between the Jews and the British--who had been their liberators throughout Europe just a few months before--continued until a 1949 United Nations agreement granted a portion of Palestine for Jewish settlement...
Programs aside, yesterday's agreement willchange the way women enter and exit the College...
...while pledging to continue to serve the needs of females on campus, Harvard and Radcliffe officials said these and other single-sex traditions on campus are likely to change. Administrators stressed that many implications for undergraduate life were not fully thought out in yesterday's agreement...
...sure there will be a transition periodwhere the implications of this agreement withRadcliffe will have to be worked out," he added...