Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, meanwhile, demanded to see a top-secret 1965 agreement with Thailand, which Idaho Democrat Frank Church said might "contemplate the use of American forces" in the event of a military threat to that small Southeast Asian country. At week's end the exact contents of the pact remained a mystery. It was learned, however, that the U.S. could be committed to send troops into Thailand under certain circumstances. This news caused Church to ask if the pact could lead to another Viet...
...great chance," he argues. "There is a balance of mediocrity in the world now. The world could move forward because that is so." One area in which Nixon has moved is in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. With luck, and if the Pentagon's generals can find agreement with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's negotiators, there is some prospect of serious strategic-arms-limitation talks between the U.S. and the Soviets very soon...
Harvard's negotiating committee and the Army failed to reach an agreement which would allow for the continuation of the program. This is primarily the result of a Faculty resolution limiting ROTC to the status of an extra-curricular organization, removing academic credit, and removing appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from military professors...
Nixon made no immediate commitment to press for most-favored-nation status for Rumania. He and Ceausescu did agree to an exchange of information-service library centers. The two men also decided to resume negotiations toward a U.S.-Rumanian civil air agreement-none now exists-and to open formal discussions aimed at mutual extension of consular facilities. Most of the remaining time was spent discussing East-West relations, which both men are anxious to improve. In his toast to improving those relations during a state dinner at week's end, the President declared: "We are flexible about the methods...
...reach decisions by an exquisitely deliberate process of consensus seeking. In most companies, reports TIME Correspondent Frank Iwama, this process is symbolized by the long row of printed boxes running down the side of policy papers. Every executive involved must put his "chop" (mark) in a box, signifying his agreement, before any decision can be moved along. The next step is to present the decision to one of the "day clubs" of supposed competitors that meet regularly to shape policy for groups of companies. Consensus reached in one of these clubs must then be presented to the government, which supplies...