Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shift in the Senate schedule, Pagter said, placing the voting on amendments to the Natural Gas Bill on today's agenda, will compell the Senator to remain in Washington...
More and more leaders of governments show themselves in foreign capitals these days. Visits like that of Britain's Sir Anthony Eden to Washington this week have two kinds of meaning-practical and symbolic. Main item on the practical agenda of the Eden visit is to reach U.S.British agreement on some world trouble spots, especially on the Communist threat to the Middle East (TIME, Jan. 16). But this effort will probably be sterile unless the talks are permeated by the symbolic meaning of Eden in Washington. Diplomatist George Kennan to the contrary, international relations are not mere projections...
Gathering his experts about him, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden got set to visit the U.S. this week. The major problem on his agenda was finding Anglo-American agreement on the Middle East where, warned Eden, "a universal explosion could easily be touched...
...with his leadership: "I want everyone to understand this," he told a Tory audience. "This country is not on its way down, and this government is not on its way out." But most of his hours were spent on preparing the diplomatic briefs he will present in Washington. His agenda, and the points of conflict...
...welcome from either side; the State Department's follow-through was woefully inadequate, and the Czech arms deal shortly afterwards queered everything. But the urgency of a solution increases, and so does the difficulty, as the weeks go by. The subject is now high on the agenda of the U.S. National Security Council, and the British Foreign Office last week called home eight Middle East ambassadors for talks. In Jordan, Arab refugees from Palestine, spurred by Egyptian and Saudi Arabian agitators (and also by Communist agents) rioted in the streets and smashed up the U.S. consulate, bringing a protest...