Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the rest of South Viet Nam -is that they are receiving ever larger amounts of aid from their allies. Intelligence sources reported last week that the Chinese and Russians, who have been quarreling about the transit of Russian aid across China by rail, have reached an agreement that will speed the flow. North Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh went off to make a pitch for even more aid in Peking, Moscow and East Berlin, where the East German Communists are holding their party congress. From the Communist camp outside Viet Nam, a river...
...Trucking Employers, Inc., representing nearly 1,500 trucking firms, announced a nationwide lockout in retaliation against scattered strikes by local Teamsters Union members. The lockout idled a quarter-million Teamsters and stalled trucks that carry 65% of the freight hauled on the nation's highways. If a swift agreement was not reached, the Federal Government appeared ready to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, calling for an 80-day truce, in which work would resume and bar gaining continue...
...earnings of Malawian workers in the factories and mines of South Africa and Rhodesia. Malawi is the only black African nation that openly refuses to comply with the U.N. economic sanctions against Rhodesia, and last month it became the first black African nation to sign a formal trade agreement with South Africa...
After the much-publicized "Black Power" controversy, it is refreshing to see the subtleties of agreement, as well as disagreement among Negro leaders. On "Meet the press," for the benefit of the mass media, they may heatedly disagree. But there is at least one objective they all have in common -- the well-being of the American Negro. The "generational gap," as the cliche has it, is considerably less than tremendous...
Some of the more moderate opponents of the war have withheld support for tomorrow's marches because they don't think the speakers represent a true cross-section of anti-war opinion. Their point may be valid, but their logic is not. Complete agreement among the participants in such a march is impossible. Infighting can only discourage moderate participation, and encourage charges of domination by extremists...