Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPOKEN or unspoken, the assumption is often made that any agreement reached in Paris to end the Viet Nam war must also bring an end to the present government of South Viet Nam. Either it must be sacrificed to a larger coalition government as part of the price of an accord with Hanoi, so the reasoning goes, or it is certain to collapse from its own infirmities once the prop of U.S. support and the urgency of waging a war is removed. That may or may not prove true. Meanwhile, President Nguyen Van Thieu's elected government continues...
...booming economy, and that is how Manila gets into the act. The Philippine Sulus are putting considerable pressure on the Manila government to get hold of the territory. Acting for the Sultan's heirs, who live in the Philippines, the Manila government claims that the original agreement merely leased Sabah to the British instead of ceding it. Last month, talks in Bangkok broke down, and Manila threatened to withdraw its ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, a rupture that could have scuttled ASEAN as a promising vessel for Southeast Asian cooperation...
...private meetings last week, Philippine Foreign Minister Narciso Ramos and Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak agreed to a "cooling off period," to last indefinitely, or at least, the Malaysians hoped, until after the Philippine national elections next year. Ramos made it clear that the agreement could prove a personal albatross: "It hangs around my neck. I expect to be criticized when I get back. In fact, I may be roasted alive." The Philippine government could repudiate Ramos' commitment at Djakarta, but only at the price of withdrawing from ASEAN...
United Steelworkers President I. W. Abel allowed that he was "not totally happy" with the agreement, and a number of union locals showed their own displeasure by staging a series of wildcat strikes. Even so, the $1 billion-plus settlement was the biggest in the union's history. The contract will add at least 900 to the $4.93 the average steel-worker now receives in wages and benefits. By comparison, total compensation back in 1950 amounted to $1.91. Be sides a three-year pay increase of 440, the new pact calls for broadly improved pensions...
...sleepy attitude and outdated refinery equipment. Anderson shook off the sleep, cut back on staff, ordered a $100 million modernization program. Then, on a fishing trip with Chairman Charles S. Jones of Richfield Oil Corp., he worked out a merger that linked Atlantic with the Los Angeles company. The agreement between the two was a scant five pages long to cover a $1.2 billion organization with worldwide holdings...