Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crush the rebellion in the same way that he had put down Algerian terrorism), Pompidou calmly took over their responsibilities. Sleeping in snatches near his desk and eating little but snacks, he urged concessions for the dissident students when others counseled a show of strength. He hammered out an agreement that eventually ended labor's general strike, and he pleaded with De Gaulle to live above the crisis for as long as possible. When the President did proclaim his intention to stand fast in the dramatic speech that brought a beginning of order, he singled out Pompidou...
Margaret Fishback, advertising copywriter and author of light verse, commented on a call by Yakov A. Malik, Russia's permanent representative to the U.N., for an agreement outlawing military use of the world's sea beds...
Later, at a ceremony in the White House at which Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin exchanged papers ratifying the U.S.-Russian consular agreement, Johnson expressed hope that nothing will "prevent us from exploring every avenue to a more peaceful relationship and a more cooperative world." The new accord calls for separate negotiations on the opening of consular offices outside Moscow and Washington and constitutes the first bilateral agreement between the two nations since the U.S. granted diplomatic recognition to Russia...
...resistance to any such reaction by pulling the highly diffuse, anarchic organization together under at least regional direction. "If this group does not get together in the next two years," warned National Education Secretary Bob Pardun, "we'll be wiped out." Yet the debates dramatized the difficulty of agreement within S.D.S. on anything but broad goals. Exercising "participatory democracy" to the fullest, delegates spent hours belaboring technical points. After ten hours of discussion, all three resolutions aimed at restructuring the organization were voted down...
...along? Some liquor companies think they may have spotted one. It is tequila, the distinctive Mexican cactus liquor that mingles lazily-but with a powerful wallop-with all kinds of ingredients. Imports are up 388% in the past five years, and nearly every major distiller has now made an agreement with a Mexican producer...