Word: accordingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 14 nations signed the Geneva accord establishing Laotian neutrality last month. Red Prince Souphanouvong promised to release the U.S. prisoners held by his Communist Pathet Lao. Last week five gaunt and bearded men stumbled off a twin-engined Soviet plane at Vientiane's Wattay airport. They had been imprisoned for 15 months or more - and looked...
...Union in Oslo. 400 sober-minded Humanists were on hand, representing more than 300,000 of their fellow believers in 24 countries. Although West Germany subsidizes some Humanist organizations, and The Netherlands allows them to have their own army chaplains, Humanist societies are generally denied the recognition that governments accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd...
...cricket bats, polo sticks and tea, Britain and the European Common Market reached full accord last week. Such essential adjuncts to the British way of life will continue to be imported duty-free from India and Ceylon if Britain joins the Market. Despite such progress, the protracted negotiations for British admission came close to foundering over the pivotal issue of food prices...
...what negotiations are for," he shrugged. "We have been expecting difficulties to arise, and they have." But in a final 22-hour session aimed at breaking the stalemate, Heath's team failed to win the clear-cut safeguards it sought. With no hope of obtaining an overall accord in time for the Commonwealth conference in London next month, Britain and the Six adjourned the talks, agreed to try again in October...
...week thought they detected the faintest softening in Peking's tone. Perhaps it was just a lullaby over the Laos settlement, or maybe the Reds were too hungry at home to take on external adventures. At any rate, in his closing speech to the negotiators of the Laos accord, Peking's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi, 61, sounded almost benign. After some standard bluster, the tough veteran of the civil war said: "We have, after all, broken a link in the chain of tension in Southeast Asia, and we should enlarge this breakthrough." Chen even found a reasonably...