Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legally and politically, the U.S. has found itself in an awkward spot ever since the French granted Morocco independence in 1956. Lacking any agreement with the new nation, the U.S. was forced to rest its case on the lease it had signed with the French government five years before. In fact, France still claims technical ownership of the bases...
Although he emphasized the dangers and technical difficulties of reaching an armaments agreement with the U.S.S.R., Kissinger said he favored negotiation on reducing the danger of radioactive fallout, and setting up reciprocal inspection zones on the borders of the Soviet Union to lessen the possibility of non-nuclear attack...
Reischauer expressed full agreement with the administration on the necessity of defense of Taiwan, but declared that the defense of Quemoy is not sound "militarily or politically...
...provisions which deal with the Community are generous, imaginative and flexible. Any overseas territory which rejects the Constitution becomes independent, althought it can still later on sign an agreement of association with France. Any territory which chooses to remain within the Community can become a member state, and it can always pull out later...
...that Reuther would give in came when Ford proposed a three-year agreement. Reuther raised no real objection, even though this key Ford demand had been flatly turned down for months. From then on, differences were quickly settled. The problem was to find enough high-sounding but low-cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room, as union stewards...