It is not clear how the deal will be implemented on the ground in northern Kosovo where hardline Serb leaders vehemently reject any authority coming from Pristina's ethnic Albanians and consider the region a part of Serbia.

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Laxalt expressed the view that, had he and his colleagues known then what is now known about the hemispheric context and Communist Chinese penetration of the Canal Zone (among other places in the region), there would almost certainly have been the votes needed to reject that accord.

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