Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Journeying to the Soviet capital, Czechoslovak Premier Oldřich Cernick put his signature on a new seven-year economic agreement that abolishes any hope that Czechoslovakia might be able to seek funds and know-how in the West to revitalize its disastrously outmoded industry. The agreement was another barter deal, similar to earlier ones that ruinously shortchanged the Czechoslovaks; they must deliver trucks, heavy pipe and other manufactured goods to the Russians in return for raw materials. In addition, both countries will cooperate in the construction of a long pipeline to carry natural gas from the Soviet fields...
...hamstrung the parliament. It wastes much time debating such weighty measures as whether Afghan women should be prohibited from going abroad unchaperoned. Debate on a proposed Afghan-Polish cultural exchange broke up in confusion when a back-country member of parliament angrily shouted: "I know what a cultural agreement means. It means Afghan women dancing naked in the streets of Warsaw...
After two days of round-the-clock negotiations, the school board announced a settlement under which the ousted teachers would "not be prevented" from returning and any teachers dismissed by local boards in the future could appeal to arbitration panels. The union called off its strike-but the agreement blew up when the affected teachers tried to return to their classrooms...
...years of Hungarian domination. Because Slovak nationalism is recognized as one of the prime factors in Dubcek's rise to power, I do not think this matter should be taken so lightly. It explains the Czech-Slovak federation and the Slovak struggle for equal status since the Pittsburgh Agreement of 1918. A simple reference to the "restive Slovaks" contributes nothing to an understanding of this contemporary problem, which has its roots in the 1,000-year Slovakian quest for freedom...
Trickle in a Thaw. The first Russo-Japanese venture in Siberia is already under way. This summer Communists and capitalists after much dickering over terms signed an agreement under which Japanese banks will grant a $133 million, five-year loan at 5.8% to enable the Russians to develop Siberian timber cutting. In addition, a consortium of 13 Japanese companies, including such big trading firms as Mitsui and Mitsubishi, will be allowed to sell $30 million worth of consumer goods to Russian settlers in Siberia. As repayment of the loan and to cover its interest, the Russians over a five-year...