Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese President, Nguyen Van Thieu, meanwhile continued to reject the proposed accord and at the same time to rally his people in preparation for a ceasefire. Last Sunday, despite a ban on public demonstrations, his government permitted (and stage-managed) the largest political rally the capital has seen in six years. More than 10,000 Vietnamese Catholics marched to the Saigon city hall to register their support of Thieu and their opposition to the settlement...
...commission, composed of Poland, Canada and India, was set up under the 1954 Geneva accord to supervise the cease-fire in Viet Nam-an agreement that is still legally in force, if only observed in the breach...
...January 1970 hearing as an adviser and report on the proceedings. At first James Q. Wilson, CRR chairman, prohibited the move, but then the Committee huddled in one corner of the hearing room and reversed Wilson's initial ruling. Thus, in a few minutes and on its own accord, the CRR set an important precedent to which it still adheres...
...accord, which will be signed later this year, is a logical consequence of President Nixon's trip to Moscow last May. It includes an understanding that the U.S. and the Soviet Union will open their ports to each other's merchant ships, and it will give permission to the U.S. to establish business facilities in Moscow. But its most important section deals with two Siberian natural-gas projects, gigantic undertakings for which the total cost will eventually run to about $10 billion. They are not expected to start until 1978 at the earliest...
Tensions between the divided halves of the city have relaxed somewhat since the signing of the four-power Berlin accord. The most recent sign: East Berlin has allowed the West Berlin government to buy the station property -for $10 million. The West Berliners plan to develop the land for commercial purposes, but the sale came about so suddenly when East Berlin finally decided to sell that details have not been worked...