Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD NIXON'S top priority will, of course, be Viet Nam-at least in the foreseeable future. Though he could only welcome Saigon's agreement last week to attend the Paris talks, hardly anyone in Washington believes that any substantive moves toward peace will be made before the next President takes office. At best, the negotiators in Paris may have settled what they call the "modalities": such inconsequential but emotion-charged issues as seating arrangements, speaking order, briefing rules, and myriad other details...
...Pentagon, attitudes changed. The new Secretary of Defense was "inclined" to agree that there is a need for the new bomber, and with that, AMSA gained new impetus. Already, $120 million has been spent for advanced research and development. However, under the terms of last week's agreement, the Air Force cannot go ahead with full development and procurement. First, there will be a design competition that will last at least two years and cost several hundred million dollars. By waiting for a successful design to be developed by industry, the Pentagon will be able to spread the costs...
...narrative, but it is hardly to the point, considering Lyndon Johnson's character. Moreover, competent legal opinion holds that the full powers of the presidency are lodged with the Vice President on the instant of the President's death. As it happens, there was also a written agreement between Kennedy and Johnson providing that the Vice President would take over if the President be came disabled...
Disclaimed Bridge. The strife extended to the waters of the Gulf that separates the two countries. Iran refused to ratify a 1965 agreement dividing the Gulf into Saudi and Iranian zones, and Arabian newspapers blossomed with maps labeling it the "Arabian Gulf." When an Aramco drilling team, with Saudi approval, began working in the same waters as the Iranian concessionaire, a joint venture by Iranians and Standard Oil of Indiana, one of the Shah's gunboats arrested the oilmen...
...divided and weak to defend them selves, the sheikdoms will be wide open to subversion when the British depart unless the Shah and Feisal fill the vacuum. No agreement was reached at Riyadh on joint defense measures. But, taking no chances, Iran pushed ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on arms and development in the region. The Iranians are adding three minesweepers to the nine minesweepers and 125 patrol boats already on duty in the Gulf. The first two squadrons of U.S.-built Phantom jets have arrived at the southern Iranian air base of Vahdati, only...