Word: accords
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Carter believes the days of springing decisions on the public without prior warning are over. "I think it's accurate to say," he noted of an accord Gerald Ford had made with the Soviets in 1974, "that when the Vladivostok agreement was reached there was almost a dearth of news about the negotiations. Only when the final agreement was signed was it revealed. All of a sudden you had an accomplished fact. Negotiating points were never understood by the American public or the Congress...
Gamsakhurdia, who was a member of a group monitoring Soviet response to the 1975 Helsinki accord that is supposed to guarantee human rights, had advocated secession of his native Republic of Georgia from the Soviet Union. Tried and convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, he was sentenced to three years in prison. As part of its coverage of the trial, Vremya broadcast a taped confession by Gamsakhurdia. Whitney and Piper both wrote stories quoting Gamsakhurdia's friends as contending that the broadcast confession did not reflect his real views and seemed to have been fabricated...
Another sign of greater accord between the University and the union is the recent ratification of the long-awaited new contract. While neither side would release exact details of the contract, Powers, Joyce and Costello said it concerned wage increases, health benefits, and about 12 more items, including the definition of reclassification policy. Costello called the wage increase "moderate--neither extremely high nor extremely low, but in accord with the cost of living increase." But the union appears less satisified with the contract than the University, for Costello added, "Feelings were extremely high among the men--as in every contract...
Orlov's "crime," in the Kremlin's eyes, was his role in organizing a Moscow committee to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord on European Security and Cooperation. The committee prepared a number of documents, petitions and open addresses charging that "many hundreds" of Soviet citizens were "languishing in prisons and camps [for] political, ethical and religious beliefs." Free emigration and reunification of families, according to Orlov's group, were still being severely hampered, even though these rights were endorsed by the Helsinki accord. Introducing these reports as evidence...
Carter supports Kahn and holds up the CAB as an example of the price-cutting benefits of competition, but the two men are not always in accord. After the President overturned the CAB's award of the Dallas-London route to Pan American and gave that plum to Braniff, the fiercely independent Kahn openly criticized the decision and seriously considered quitting...