Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provision as a minimum rather than a maximum is a tribute to the skill of the Russian negotiators. By grossly misrepresenting their requirements, the Russians were able to "accede" to this clause and thereby achieve one of their original aims--the de facto securing of a one-year trade accord...
Sandman gained the Republican nomination for governor after he defeated incumbent Governor William T. Cahill in an intensive battle last June. Cahill, a moderate, subsequently formally endorsed Sandman but did little else to aid the Republican nominee. Republican Senator Clifford Case did not even accord Sandman that formality and both he and Cahill remained silent throughout the campaign...
...Women's Liberation, Betty Friedan, flew to Rome last week on the eve of the first meeting of the Vatican's special study commission on the role of women in society. Friedan spent four minutes in a private audience with Pope Paul VI, urging him to accord women "personhood." The Pope thanked her for the work she had done on behalf of women and accepted as a gift a brass Women's Lib symbol. Said Friedan to the Pope: "As you see, this makes a different kind of cross." Friedan avoided dogmatic issues like birth control...
...politics of the cease-fire were being worked out by big powers the battleground situation in the Middle East remained ambiguous throughout the week, Egypt and Israel exchanging charges that the other had violated the cease-fire accord. Clearly, the ceasefire was not being honored...
...accord provided boosts in wages and fringe benefits adding up to at least 7% annually, thus stretching the Nixon Administration's 6.2% guidepost rule...