Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other's proposal. After last week's session in the old Hotel Majestic, North Viet Nam's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, left Paris for his first visit home since the talks began-doubtless to receive fresh instructions. Even so, both sides have already arrived at closer agreement on the principles of a settlement than they publicly acknowledge...
...seemed closer still to getting a substantial foothold in the Middle East. The government of Syria, evidently angered at Russia's slowdown in arms deliveries, dispatched to Peking a delegation headed by Chief of Staff Major General Mustafa Tlas. One possible result of that mission would be an agreement to supply Syria with arms, thereby giving Peking its first substantial influence over a Middle East government -in the same way that Moscow bought its way into the Middle East by supplying arms to Egypt...
...have no illusions. The U.N. Security Council will say, of course, this is wonderful: the big powers agree. It doesn't happen twice a week that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are in agreement. And we will say no. Then it will go to the Assembly, and maybe a special assembly-and we will say no. It won't be easy...
...have mentioned Arab perfidy several times. What makes you think they will keep any signed agreement? Isn't there a paradox here...
...from their parents in the form of money for college costs, but some also receive explicit endorsement for their activism. "I'm quite certain that if I were 23 or 24, I'd be out there with the students," says Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement), whose son was among the 42 rebels expelled after last winter's sit-in at the University of Chicago. Using newspaper advertisements, Mrs. Hobson is helping to conduct a parental protest campaign against the expulsions, which she denounces as "overkill" in reaction to a nonviolent dissent...