Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President. To erase the impression that he had given Johnson unconditional support for any contingency, Nixon later in the week said that he had made his pledge with the understanding that there would be "prior consultation and prior agreement" between himself and the White House before any major step was taken in foreign affairs. To this end, he appointed as his liaison man Robert D. Murphy, 74, a retired career diplomat who has handled sensitive assignments in hot wars and cold, and who will now occupy an office next to Dean Rusk's at the State Department...
...part, the U.S. warned North Viet Nam that it took a "serious view" of incidents since the bombing halt in which Communist forces fired on allied troops from inside the Demilitarized Zone, thus violating the tacit agreement that North Viet Nam would respect the inviolability of the DMZ in return for the halt. There have been several such violations confirmed so far. In the most serious, Communist 122-mm. rocket and 75-mm. artillery fire killed five U.S. Marines at Con Thien and wounded 46. The U.S. retaliated with fire in each incident...
...militant demands rises," writes Haddad, "it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the old-fashioned Strom Thurmond segregationist policy of 1948 and the modern Roy Innis separationist philosophy of 1968." Retorts Innis: "This society is racist and won't change." Nevertheless, the two have some grounds for agreement. "Roy and I," says Haddad, "are not such purists that we can't isolate a problem and discuss it. We can both agree, for instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They plan to start a journalism training program for Negro and Puerto Rican youngsters. And they both...
...involved in a discussion which should have a significant impact on our community. There is basic agreement among HUC members concerning those broad concepts endorsed Monday night, which thus far include 1) popular election of student representatives, 2) a student review board for each department to assist in tenure decisions, 3) student participation on faculty-administration committees only when assured of the right to participate in the decision itself, and 4) student-Senior Common Room participation in the nomination of Masters. I sincerely hope that we will be able to realize our goals once our proposals are finalized and completed...
...could have sold about 100,000 tickets, including those sold at Yale," Gordon M. Page, Harvard's ticket manager said. By agreement between the two schools, Yale receives approximately 15,000 tickets to sell when the game is in Cambridge...