Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bella held four political discussions with Chou during his week-long visit. High on the agenda was Peking's desire for another Bandung-type conference of Asian and African nations; the Red Chinese see such a meeting as a device to draw fence-sitting countries closer to their own camp in world affairs. At a press conference in Algiers, Chou declared that Ben Bella was in favor of another "Bandung," though it was not entirely clear just how enthusiastic Ben Bella felt on the subject. But when Chou lashed out at "U.S. imperialism" at a closed meeting of Algerian...
Massive or Flexible. For the record, the agenda was crowded with distant general matters: What next in disarmament talks with Russia? What meaning for the West in the Sino-Soviet split? But in a kind of corridor warfare and in separate bilateral meetings, some factions tried to maneuver the U.S. into giving Europe more say in the use of the H-bomb, and others looked for ways to frustrate Charles de Gaulle's force de dissuasion...
...bill, which has already passed the House, remains the subject of lengthy hearings before the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Virginia's Conservative Democrat Harry Byrd; even after Johnson's speech, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could promise only that the bill would be first on the agenda for floor debate when the Senate reconvenes next January...
...drawing up a step-by-step program for what he called "the despotic inroads on the rights of property," Karl Marx put as No. 2 on his big agenda "a heavy progressive or graduated income...
...good in Jesus' teachings was not new," runs an old Jewish saying, "and what was new was not good." This basic conflict between Judaism and Christianity lay at the heart of two skirmishes last week in Rome and Chicago. Both were triggered by the Vatican Council's agenda chapter on Jews...