Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That thing" was the Washington plan (TIME, Nov. 26), agreeing on the present battle line as a post-armistice demarcation line between North and South Korea, if the rest of the agenda items can be settled in 30 days. Both sides agreed that, if no overall settlement should be reached by that time, they would go on talking, but the line would no longer be valid except as a reference point. After some argument over contested hill positions, the battle line was plotted on a duplicate set of maps and initialed by both sides...
With the directors out of the way we whipped together a topic list pretty quickly. Bernstein and company returned upon a pre-arranged signal from us and began frowning over the agenda...
...point, General Nam II includes Britain and the United States among the "peace loving nations of the world." The rapid U.N. acceptance of Chinese terms for a meeting place and agenda stunned the Chinese who expected to use our refusal for propaganda. General Ridgway's anger when newsmen were barred from Kaesong, and the Reds' quick agreement to reverse their stand and allow the press entry, all reveal the Reds' confusion and worry...
Whatever its merits and shortcomings, the Washington plan rescued the U.N. sub-committee men at Panmunjom from an uncomfortable position. Earlier in the week, they were being accused by the Reds of "disloyalty to the agenda"-of refusing to settle the cease-fire line in its proper order among the agenda items...
Counterproposal. When the Assembly formally adopted its agenda, Vishinsky's peace proposal was far down on the list...