Word: concessioners
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In a major concession that one diplomat called "the start of the end of the war in the ex-Yugoslavia," separatist Serbs in Croatia agreed to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991. The Eastern Slavonia region bordering Serbia will revert to Croatian control after...
The final details included agreements to preserve safe passage for each side through territory controlled by the other in the delicate jigsaw puzzle forged in Dayton. Muslims and Croats, for example, are assured a safe corridor through Serbian territory from Sarajevo to the Muslim city of Goradze. Serbs won protection...
The real question, FlorCruz says, is why the government bothers to go through the formalities of a trial: "Some analysts see it as a concession to the hardliners who have complained that the government has been too "soft" toward dissidents like Wei. Others say that Beijing has decided that it...
IT IS THE MORNING OF NOV. 1, AND "NEWTSIE," as Dole affectionately refers to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has thrown a fit. Gingrich and Dole are only hours away from their first serious sit-down with Bill Clinton to discuss the Republican budget. But Gingrich is threatening...
Rabin defeated Peres for the party leadership and went on to become Israel's youngest Prime Minister and the first sabra to hold that post. He won by a narrow margin, however, which meant he was compelled to include Peres in his Cabinet as Defense Minister (a concession he agreed...