Word: accords
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After holding hearings to determine if the proposed development conformed with the master plan of the city, and was in accord with the neighbors, the Hancock people finally got Pei's design okayed, in September 1968. But it was only after ten months of wrangling and a change in the zoning law that Hancock...
...seniors' fourth choice for the invitation, was secretary of defense for the first two of six months in 1973 during which the United States mercilessly and criminally bombed Cambodia. Although Richardson resigned last October as attorney general on a supposed matter of principle, he had presumably felt it in accord with his conscience nine months earlier to defend and help perpetuate Nixon's war policies--policies which had led to the terror bombing of Hanoi just before Richardson took over the Pentagon...
Brett Donham '60, acting chairman of the task force, said yesterday that his colleagues are in accord on the basic orientation of the project. "Everyone agrees that the industrial uses of the area should be in technically-oriented industry, such as electronic assembly, that allows a high-density level of blue-collar workers," he said...
...past, the former Soviet leader's freewheeling reminiscences bear directly on many contemporary issues. He discusses hitherto unknown incidents that contributed to the present Moscow-Peking conflict. He provides insights into the Soviet missile buildup, and the mutual suspicions that prevented any Russian-U.S. arms limitations accord. Khrushchev also presents typically blunt assessments of contemporary world political figures he dealt with, including Mao Tse-tung, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon...
Best Forgotten. The New Delhi accord was less precise in dealing with the fate of the 500,000 Biharis (non-Bengali Moslems) in Bangladesh. Many of the Biharis-so called because they emigrated from the Indian state of Bihar at the time of the 1947 partition-sided with the Pakistani military during the war, and for that reason face a painful future if they stay in Bangladesh. Most of them live in fear and squalor in huge refugee camps outside Dacca and other cities...