Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discussing the problems in reaching an international accord on ocean resource conservation and development, Cousteau said many developing nations view environmental protection as incompatible with economic development...
...spread their culture to distant worlds. So they assemble everything they want to say into one huge unbroken message, and then broadcast it out into space. The message is picked up by this huge computer on Earth which proceeds to take over the world and restructure society to accord with the outer-space radio message...
Despite his angry words and Khrushchev-like fist pounding, Brezhnev conceded that a new SALT accord, based on the 1974 Vladivostok agreement, was still "quite attainable." If that was achieved, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could "move forward to a mutual reduction of armaments." Brezhnev also sketched out a proposal for gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and hinted that the Russians might be receptive to Carter's proposal to limit the international arms trade...
...freeze on new types and new generations of weaponry and a deep reduction in the strategic arms of both sides." Then, with a candor unusual in a foreign policy address, he disclosed a possible negotiating fallback position, suggesting "a limited agreement based on those elements of the Vladivostok accord on which we can find complete consensus, [setting aside] the more contentious issues...
...Cairo, has said: "The Koran is revelation, and the life of the Prophet is a divine commentary on that revelation. The idea of them being portrayed by others is particularly offensive." American viewers may find the theological objections of the faithful difficult to fathom. But they will have to accord them high marks as movie critics...