Word: cedes
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...progress, a U.N. envoy said yesterday that several Afghan groups (including the Northern Alliance) had agreed to meet in Berlin this weekend to begin talks, and had signed on to the U.N.’s vision of broad-based, multiethnic rule. The Northern Alliance has agreed to cede control in Kabul to such an interim government, but it must also allow a multinational peacekeeping force to temporarily take over in Kabul while the U.N. talks are ongoing...
...they have chosen to retreat and cede the city to the Northern Alliance, the strategic equation in Afghanistan will have changed overnight. Supply lines from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan would immediately be opened to ferry both military materiel and humanitarian assistance to northern Afghanistan, while the Taliban forces in the north and west would be endanger of being cut off. It would also potentially give the U.S. access to two major airfields inside Afghanistan, allowing it to base strike aircraft within ten minutes flying time of Taliban targets - U.S. fighters currently have to fly off carriers in the Arabian...
...past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift from those who're good with their fists to those who're good with words. And as the current standoff over the long-silent IRA weapons shows, the hard men are sometimes reluctant to cede the role they play in an armed insurgency...
...being touted by some senior Israeli politicians is the idea of "unilateral separation" from the Palestinians, as first suggested by Ehud Barak. That would involve Israel simply putting up a defensible wall and keeping Palestinians out, allowing them to establish a state on whatever piece of territory Israeli deigns cede. Again, an idea that may appeal in abstract, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty of what do about Jerusalem or the settlers dotted throughout Palestinian territory, it starts to look a little implausible. More importantly, the whole purpose of negotiating a final peace deal with the Palestinians...
Katharine Graham took charge not only of herself, but also of Washington. She declined to speak at the all-male Gridiron Club. She refused to cede to the customary after-dinner conversational separation of men and women—and in her refusal, destroyed it. She entered boardrooms full of men and made them think that meeting with her could be normal, or maybe special...