Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting with the President's assent-or out of sheer foolhardiness. Some speculated that perhaps the President had grown passive as his term drew to a close and was simply allowing his Defense Secretary to take charge. Others were convinced that the President was in full agreement with what his longtime friend and adviser was trying to do. Whatever the cause, it has become increasingly evident-and never more so than last week-that Clifford has been a prime force in arresting the ever-growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and turning the nation toward disengagement. TIME...
...book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat's view of Realpolitik: "The hopes of international peace depend upon a firm disregard of the rights and wrongs of disputes, on which there can almost never be agreement, and on a purpose either to settle them by compromise or to ignore them...
...discussion proved inconclusive. Despite the conciliatory efforts of the Indian commissioner, there was no Polish-Canadian agreement. After a lunch of roast beef, the ICC team headed back for Pnompenh and a cocktail party...
...that the Geneva Conference ended the French-Indo-China war and created three control commissions (for Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) to supervise the cease-fire and to prevent future violations of its agreements. The commission in Viet Nam-the largest and most important-has held more than 750 full meetings and filed eleven weighty reports on its mission. Without exception, they are chronicles of frustration: the ICC has simply not been able to curb violations, or, for that matter, prevent a war. Its composition-an ideological troika-has rendered impossible the unanimous agreement required for any assessment as laid...
...tune in the network at all and instead rely on their own library of TV tapes. CBS President Frank Stanton answers that EVR is an "additive" that will complement TV, just as record players complemented radio. Still, CBS has protected its profits with an intricate tangle of patents. An agreement made with the New York Times for creation of the first EVR educational films, for example, provides that CBS will share with the Times in both production and profits. Eventually, as one industry cynic observed last week, the mediocrity of network TV may prove to be a virtue by stimulating...