Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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bombing. The North Vietnamese have been urged by both the Soviet Union and China to try to reach a quick accord. Hanoi could hardly have been encouraged by Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's mild references to the bombing in his recent speech at the 50th anniversary of the U.S.S.R.-or by the fact that he sent his son and daughter to meet Tricia and Edward Cox at a U.S. Embassy reception in Moscow last week. The message was clear: Hanoi's sponsors want a settlement...
...imagine that old Jackson or Andy Johnson or some other ghost is walking. Why they'd want to come back I could never understand. It's a nice prison but a prison nevertheless. No man in his right mind would want to come here of his own accord...
...villa near the Paris suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho quickly arrived at the draft of a nine-point agreement. It was not yet a full accord; some vital details were yet to be filled in. But it constituted a major breakthrough. The plan separated the purely military issues from the political ones; it provided for an in-place cease-fire that would end the major fighting immediately, a U.S. withdrawal and the return of the American prisoners of war within 60 days, and for the establishment of a purposefully vague...
...President's desire to have the entire national security apparatus reflect his thinking and outlook. James Schlesinger, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has been offered the CIA post. Amid all the firings, it is difficult for anybody who says he is leaving of his own accord to be believed. Gene P. Morrell, outgoing director of the Office of Oil and Gas, demanded a retraction of a Washington Post article that said he had been ousted. He had accepted a job with an oil firm, he indignantly explained, long before the firings...
...reasoning and concludes that the whole elaborate structure rests on an empty shell. The subject of contraception is, by the Pope's own account, a matter of "natural law"--not a revealed mystery, not part of a special deposit of truths entrusted to the church; but a teaching "in accord with all men's natural reason." Accordingly, the Pope appointed a special commission which brought together reputable Catholics in the fields of science, gynecology, philosophy, as well as bishops and theologians to help decide the church's position on contraception...