Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, Washington remained silent, wanting to get the peace agreement signed and the release of war prisoners under way. But last week the State Department publicly expressed "concern," and President Nixon himself followed up by demanding that Hanoi accept the limitations imposed by the Paris Accord. "Based on my actions of the past four years," he declared, "the North Vietnamese should not lightly disregard such expressions of concern." He seemed to be implying that, if the infiltration continues, he would renew the U.S. bombing of Communist supply lines...
Reform of education to better serve the needs of undergraduates is necessaryand has been urged by President Bok. However, his emphasis upon quantitative evaluation, and his accord of greater priority to fiscal growth than to educational development, prevent the achievment of these goals...
...partners are in full accord on how to deal with the I.R.A., and they have no quarrel with Jack Lynch's decision last fall to jail a handful of I.R.A. extremists. "I've been very strong on the internal security question for years, long before Fianna Fáil was," Cosgrave told TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante last week. The coalition's record on the I.R.A., adds O'Brien, is "more thoroughly consistent" than the former government's-meaning that the new regime will be just as tough as Lynch was and maybe tougher...
...European government negotiators to break the deadlock over just how little to charge for the new service have proved futile. Last week representatives of the International Air Transport Association, the scheduled airlines' rate-fixing cartel, began meeting again to make another try at reaching an accord...
...January accord had a meaning, unlike the recent exercise in Paris. That agreement did stop American air aggression over the North, and for that we are thankful. And it did open the possibility, admittedly slim, that the United States might do something constructive in Indochina for the first time in recent history. And to pursue that constructive aim, we hope that American participation in Indochinese economic aid will not be curtailed...