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...chapter written for the newly released paperback of his book on Diana, Andrew Morton states that the couple made a friendly agreement between themselves to separate. That pact did not survive stormy sessions with Charles' parents, who supposedly would love to see Diana go but resist any concessions. For instance, if a divorce were to occur, they would want her to give up her public work, which is genuinely dear to her. If she were to remarry, the royal family would want her to leave the country and her boys. It is doubtful that either the mother or the reputation...
...time, at long last, to be truly optimistic about progress in the Middle East peace talks? To be sure, no one is predicting a reprise of the Camp David negotiations, which led to 1979's historic pact between Israel and Egypt. Yet in words -- both spoken and left unsaid -- if not in deeds, Syria and Israel, those two most contentious of antagonists, appear to be sending each other tiny signals of encouragement...
...still restricts U.S. access to its markets. Until now, Bush Administration policy in airline trade negotiations has been aimed at winning bilateral "open skies" agreements, swapping equal access to markets one country at a time. The only such agreement concluded so far, though, is with the tiny Netherlands, a pact that followed Northwest's deal with...
Elijah Harper, a Cree-Ojibway Indian and legislator in the province of Manitoba, became a hero to Canadian Indians and Inuit two years ago when he brought the machinery of national constitutional reform to a halt. His decisive no in the Manitoba legislative assembly not only doomed a complex pact designed to put the Canadian confederation on a new footing but also sent the country's political leadership back to the drawing board. Spurred in part by the Manitoban's stubborn stand, federal and provincial leaders agreed for the first time that a revised constitution must recognize native peoples' "inherent...
...month after Lake joined the Bush campaign, the Canadian Forest Industries Council hired Lake's firm to "track legislation" and monitor "administrative activities." A month later, the Commerce Department imposed a 14.5% tariff on subsidized lumber imports from Canada under the terms of the U.S.-Canada free trade pact. During the next 10 weeks, Lake twice telephoned Clayton Yeutter, who was then White House domestic-policy adviser; in a conversation on May 10, Lake asked Yeutter to take a phone call from a lawyer pleading the Canadians' case. Five days later, the Commerce Department reduced the duty on lumber imports...