Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took me and others a long time to overcome the mental and practical block to this. For 30 years the P.L.O. carried out terror activities, among them many cases I can call atrocities. But mutual recognition, in my humble opinion -- to the extent that they will keep their commitment, and I assume they will -- made the P.L.O. entirely different from what it was before...
...organization dedicated to expanding the Israeli presence on the West Bank. As he wrapped up his trip in New York, Sharon was seriously upstaged by word of secret negotiations that had finally borne fruit. The Israeli government and the PLO had forged the way for limited interim sovereignty and mutual recognition...
...principles did contain a bit of lofty rhetoric. The two sides pledged that they would "strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security and achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation." But they quickly got down to a fairly nitty- gritty discussion of procedures and timetables for Israeli military redeployment and Palestinian self-government, first in the Gaza Strip and the town of Jericho, then in the rest of the West Bank. The outcome of that test run is yet to be decided even in principle. Though both sides foresee an eventual Palestinian...
...labors of peacemaking are not concluded once the treaty is signed. Courageous sappers on both sides must start clearing the emotional minefields, the aftermath of war, removing mutual stereotypes created by many years of fear and hatred. Describing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a tragic clash between right and right, I maintain that we do not want a Shakespearean conclusion, with poetic justice hovering over a stage littered with dead bodies. We may now be nearing a typical Chekhovian conclusion for the tragedy: the players disillusioned and worried, but alive...
...even longer before the billions of dollars in U.S. pension and mutual funds start to move. Jarrod Wilcox, an executive at Boston-based Batterymarch, a money-management firm with $5 billion in assets, says his company will wait a year or so before making substantial investments in the country. "Even though South Africa's long-term future could be bright," Wilcox says, "there might be three or four years of turbulence before a new ; order takes hold...