Word: deal
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...agenda, defined by the Camp David accords, will deal with points related to the normalization of relations between the two countries. For the Egyptians, the major problem is the schedule of Israeli military withdrawal from the Sinai. In addition, the exact parameters of demilitarized zones and the stationing of U.N. peacekeeping troops will have to be settled. So will the status of U.S. monitoring stations that have been operating in the Sinai since the interim accord...
...volatile issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip will be played down in order not to hold up the treaty. Nonetheless, the Egyptian team will try to get as much linkage as possible between its Sinai deal and the future status of these occupied territories. The Egyptians expect the Israelis to make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number...
...state visit to Moscow last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad joined Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in a communiqué denouncing the "separate Camp David deal" as a "collusion arranged behind the back of the Arab nations," which would make an overall Middle East settlement "significantly more difficult." Both Assad and Brezhnev also demanded the resumption of a Geneva conference, under joint U.S. and U.S.S.R. sponsorship, which would work out a settlement based on unconditional Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories...
Some airlines are moving to deal with a particular peeve of the full-fare flyer: that once he or she managed to get a reservation and to elbow on board a crowded plane, chances were that the passenger sitting in the next seat and getting the same service had paid only a fraction as much. Indeed, in August, travelers on bargain tickets accounted for precisely 56.3% of the seats sold by the airlines, compared with 44.8% the year before. Trying to appease this irritated full-fare minority, American, Pan Am, TWA and British Airways have announced new sections in coach...
Since Hua's assumption of power in the fall of 1976, China has displayed an increasing flexibility in its willingness to deal with the outside world. In recent months, Chinese rhetoric has been matched, to the surprise of many, by concrete actions. It seems that the China we once "lost" is now in search of us. Unfortunately, it also appears that we are assiduously avoiding their quest...