Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LONDON, Feb. 19--Peace came to Cyprus today after four years of violence. A five-party conference reached agreement on independence for the island after 81 years under the British flag...
...tough provision killed out of the 1957 bill by mutual agreement of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and the Americans for Democratic Action...
...resigned next day, to be replaced by three army officers and five civilians who are moderates but willing to work with the Communists. Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba and Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid stayed on in their posts. They were the very same officials who last week negotiated important trade agreements with Communist Rumania and Bulgaria, and reached a preliminary agreement for a "vast" Soviet program to supply technical aid and erect 20 industrial projects over the years, not with Soviet funds but with Iraq's sizable profits from its British-run oil wells...
Although the Greek and Turkish governments have finally found an agreement for Cypriot liberty, many problems still lie ahead. The tragic situation of civil strife, repression and reprisal which as comprised Cypriot life for the past years was the product of several conflicting 'interests, and not all these interest have been reconciled. The British have seen their Cyprus base as necessary to the preservation of their position in the Mediterranean, especially since they were required to leave the Suez canal. The Greek-Turkish proposal does provide that the British can retain their base on the island, and thus English approval...
...assuming that the agreements will be ratified in their respective countries, the Greek-Turkish agreement is a major step forward. Potential dangers are certainly much better than present killings; perhaps the continual rounds of bomb-throwings, executions, and curfews, shall cease. The events of the week can be cheered with vigor, albeit with caution...