He couldn't jeopardize the fragile new accord with D'ram by springing distasteful innovations on the man.

A Hamas leaflet called the authority's announcement "a hopeless attempt to save its fragile accords" with Israel, under "American and Zionist pressure to make the criminal innocent and the victim guilty."

They had two daughters, Jamee and Ella, but finally the fragile accord between them began to come apart.

In the last eight days alone, talks involving cabinet secretaries and other high-ranking White House officials have produced two surprises: a major compromise with Democrats on trade and Thursday's fragile bipartisan accord on immigration.

Among the purposes of yesterday's choreography was to give this fragile accord the momentum of America's blessing.

Fighting flared again in western Liberia today after a day-long truce in battles between guerrillas and African peacekeeping units trying to maintain a fragile accord to end years of civil war.

By late yesterday afternoon, the negotiations had produced a fragile accord on a package of about $230 million in budget-balancing measures, said Marc V. Shaw, the Council's budget director.

Anything could jeopardize the fragile accord Rafe was building between himself and the winged natives of the refuge world.

This conflict spilled over the border into Rwanda and destabilized the fragile Rwandan accords.

Britain announced today that talks to put the fragile accord in place would resume next week, but the election results cast the future of the pact in doubt.