Word: liaisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makings of "a historic agreement." It would convert Hong Kong into an "autonomous special administrative zone" that could continue to be a bastion of freewheeling capitalism for at least 50 years after the 1997 handover. The terms of the agreement would be strictly monitored by a bilateral Joint Liaison Group, which would be formed once the treaty is signed. The proposed deal apparently satisfied both parties. If Peking could rejoice in the return of the capitalist jewel, London could be pleased that its elusive opponent seemed responsive to so specific and binding an agreement. Said a top British official...
...creation of a Joint Liaison Group would be a compromise between Britain's desire to have no monitoring body during the transition period and China's demand for a commission that would operate as a kind of shadow government. According to Howe, the group would include five Chinese and five British representatives; it would meet in Peking, London and Hong Kong until 1988 and then establish its principal base in Hong Kong until 2000. It would try to ease the transition from British to Chinese rule both before and after 1997, and to ensure full compliance with...
...events will not stand still while Israel sorts out the consequences of its election. The Lebanese government withdrew its guards at the Israeli liaison office in a Beirut suburb last week, as a means of forcing Jerusalem to close the building and bring home the 30 officials who worked there. Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami had been pressing Israel for months to shut the office, but Shamir had refused to abandon what amounted to the last shred of the May 17, 1983, withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor Begin...
...faculty rejected the Council's proposals, however, unleashing a wave of protest that rivaled the upheavals of a year ago. The proposals had emerged from dialogue with a faculty liaison committee appointed by Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 to stem the tide of unrest after boycotts, demonstrations, and sit-ins locked the campus last spring. For may, their defeat signaled the failure of student efforts to work within established channels, and previously passive students entered the fray...
Joining Maine and Harvard will be Seton Hall and either Rider or Temple. The official announcement about teams, sites and seedings comes tomorrow, after Bergquidst, five other Division I coaches and NCAA liaison Jerry Miles grind out the details in a conference call. But unlike the basketball tourney, the baseball championship works primarily on geographic lines...