Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those statements Ghotbzadeh was promptly summoned to the holy city of Qum for a refresher course on the Ayatullah's policies. Afterward, Khomeini announced that everyone was in accord. Said he of the students' renewed demand that the hostages be tried unless the Shah is sent back to Iran: "The nation agrees with this. The Foreign Minister and the government also agree with this. Why should the nation not support this...
...fruit of 15 weeks of painstaking negotiations at the stately Lancaster House in London, the accord carried with it the Front's previous acceptance of a majority-rule constitution and parliamentary elections. It thus appeared to pave the way for the peaceful creation of an independent republic of Zimbabwe by early next spring, as the British plan envisages. More immediately, it called for all combatants to lay down their arms within two weeks and for thousands of exiled guerrillas to return to Rhodesia, outlaws no longer. Declared a smiling Nkomo with some emotion: "We are going home...
...Orthodox "possess true sacraments, above all-by apostolic succession-the priesthood and the Eucharist." In other words it saw virtually no doctrinal barrier to joint Communion, which is not yet the case with any other Christian body. For the Orthodox, however, Communion should be shared only when full doctrinal accord is achieved...
...Carter Administration's efforts to devise another wage guideline to replace one that nominally expired Oct. 1 led to a poignant business-labor standoff last week. The White House in September had hailed the new 18-member Pay Advisory Committee as part of a ''national accord" on wage policy that would mark a healing of the rift between the President and organized labor. When the committee's first working session took place, however, all the problems of proper compensation in a period of 13% inflation burst open...
...aftermath of the 1973 oil embargo, a report of the Senate multinationals subcommittee suggested the "over-riding lesson" was that "in a democracy, important questions of policy with respect to a vital commodity like oil, the lifeblood of an industrial society, cannot be left to private companies acting in accord with private interests and a closed circle of government officials." Right now information is the scarcest and most vital commodity in the oil industry. The only way the government can hope to secure a dependable supply of this commodity is to explore its own lands and to enter the market...