Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the President and the Prime minister were described as pleased with the results of their far-ranging talks. The highlight of their meeting was an agreement on a formula for a summit conference with Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev sometime this summer. Late July or August was considered the most likely time, with Geneva as the probable site...
...decided to enter a decisive battle against Israel if aggression continued," Nasser declared. "We then asked Kassem, under the terms of our military agreement, to send Iraqi army units, but Kassem refused. We knew we would be alone if we entered a conflict with Israel...
...France, the image of Charles de Gaulle, statesman, had half erased the image of Charles de Gaulle, temperamental Free French leader of World War II. Last week the world's memory was sharply refreshed. In a move that caught his allies flatfooted, De Gaulle denounced a longstanding agreement that obligated France to put one-third of its Mediterranean fleet under NATO command in time...
...exports. They support the U.A.R.'s economy with an estimated $600 million line of credit. They supply arms-jets and tanks, and Russians to train their operators-with a lavishness that the U.S. has no intention of matching. As recently as last December, the Soviet Union acquired by agreement all construction rights for the first five years' work on Nasser's pet project, the Aswan Dam, despite a counteroffer from West Germany that would have involved no political strings...
What is more ominous is the apparent ease with which the government rid itself of all qualms about the International Geophysical Year and decided to conceal data transmitted by the satellite Explorer IV. Although the IGY agreement requires that all information should be revealed by September 1959, the United States has repeatedly taken Russia to task for not releasing data as soon as it was processed...