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...summit partners may also repeat their reservations about the Reagan Administration's $26 billion research program for the Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.), known as Star Wars. In the allies' view, the drive for S.D.I. could jeopardize U.S.-Soviet arms-reduction talks in Geneva and undermine NATO's reliance on nuclear deterrence as the basis of alliance security. A U.S. invitation to the 15 other NATO members, as well as to Japan, Australia and Israel, to participate in the research scheme seems unlikely to remove those doubts, even if they do not prove to be well founded...
...GENEVA M. ROBERSTON-DWORET SAYS...
Levy, who helped draft the Geneva Accords in 2003 and worked alongside Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an effort to promote peace after the failed Oslo Accords in 1993, said he was spurred to help end the deadlocked violence in a peaceful manner after seeing that both countries had come close to working out an initial agreement...
...speech, “The Possibility for Peace One Year After the Geneva Accord,” Levy noted that while the Geneva initiative came under heavy fire from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the negative publicity was what eventually garnered the international and domestic support that helped to launch the non-combatant reforms that were finalized in December...
...disappointed that he didn’t talk more about the Geneva Accord,” said Danielle R. Sassoon ’08, who is also a member of Harvard Students for Israel. “He was also very critical of the fact that the Bush administration had done nothing in the past four years to engage in a peace process, but I think that Arafat is not a legitimate peace partner and that now under Abbas there is a chance that peace can progress...