Word: cedes
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...military officers sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Oklahoma, the Israeli participants agreed to the Palestinian position that West Jerusalem should serve as the capital of Israel and East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. Israel's official position is that it will never cede control of any part of the city. For their part, the Arabs on the panel agreed that the city would be split in a way that would "reconcile existing realities," an implicit suggestion that Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem be incorporated into Israel's portion of the city. "There...
...separate containers. Representatives from the U.S. and Canada balked, swearing that it would cost billions to set up separate distribution systems. Although U.S. farmers lose millions in exports annually because of E.U. consumer fears about their crops, the U.S. negotiating team was prepared to walk out rather than cede the point. In the end, negotiators agreed to settle for labels that note the shipment may contain some genetically modified material. That particular label may become a common sight on European loading docks; nearly 50 percent of soybeans (and 35 percent of the corn) grown in the U.S. are genetically modified...
...that Syria has called a halt - after all, as much as Barak needs to be able to return to Tel Aviv claiming to have won security concessions, so does Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Sharaa need to be able to return to Damascus with an Israeli commitment to cede the Golan. So Bill Clinton will have to make his third personal intervention in only four days. At least it beats helping Hillary unpack the moving boxes in Westchester...