Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, Mikoyan's name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious "doctors' plot"; in his famed secret speech to the 20th Party Congress, Khrushchev said that Stalin then scathingly "characterized Molotov and Mikoyan" and "evidently had plans to finish them off." After negotiating a trade agreement with one Scandinavian nation, Mikoyan had become a close acquaintance of the country's ambassador, who entertained him frequently. In their family circle Mikoyan relaxed and played parlor games. But in that winter Mikoyan cut his friend and other foreign acquaintances dead...
...warfare and cost 100,000 lives, Colombia last week faced the future with cautious optimism. After two weeks of talks, an eight-man commission, half from the Liberal Party and half from the Conservative, presented to an approving five-man military junta a 22-page document spelling out an agreement designed to give each party an equal share in political power for the next twelve years. The military, in turn, promised that it will step out next year. Next step: a plebiscite to confirm the agreement...
Since the return of onetime Liberal President Alberto Lleras Camargo from a peace-making meeting with Conservative ex-President Laureano Gómez in Sitges, Spain (TIME, Aug. 12), relations between the two parties have been warmly cordial. The agreement drawn up jointly by Lleras Camargo and Gómez, which provides that during the next three four-year administrations, Cabinet posts, Congress seats, state legislatures and town councils will be arbitrarily divided 50-50 between the two parties, was the basis for the document presented to the junta last week...
...TIME-LIFE correspondent in Peking from 1947 io 1949). This week Radio Peking gave an answer that started some of them unpacking again. The Dulles decision to let U.S. newsmen into China, said the broadcast, is "completely unacceptable to the Chinese people"-unless. The unless: U.S. agreement to invite Chinese Communist correspondents on a reciprocal basis...
...director of personnel and industrial relations of Trans World Airlines-one of the few Negroes in an executive capacity in a major U.S. airline. Though T.W.A. had no comment, insiders say that Airman Plinton will help lay the groundwork for T.W.A.'s first Negro pilots under an industry agreement last year (TIME, Oct. 15) to eliminate discrimination in hiring flight personnel...