Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement to initiate preliminary peace talks with North Viet Nam [May 10] is conceivably the most constructive achievement of American diplomacy in recent years. It has become increasingly evident that perpetuation of the status quo is untenable. For the incongruence of our increased involvement, upon an ever-diminishing base of rationale, has been unveiled before all eyes. Hopefully both negotiating teams will move swiftly towards an honorable and realistic peace...
Once the talks get past the bombing issue-and there is always a chance that they could founder right there-the French expect them to be extended, perhaps to include Laos and Cambodia as well as Viet Nam. Vietnamese sources in Paris believe that there will be quick agreement on a U.S. bombing halt and a reciprocal gesture by the North. After that, they expect the U.S. to offer a $1 billion rebuilding program to the North while Hanoi agrees in turn to quit using the Demilitarized Zone as a staging area and to halt infiltration. Then will come...
...fifth floor. The 59-story Pan Am Building, which was built five years ago with an 80-year air-rights lease that could bring the railroad a total of $100 million, stands atop Grand Central itself; last February, the newly merged Penn Central Railroad signed an even more lucrative agreement for a companion building that will rise above the terminal...
Eric Wyndham White, 55, has spent the past two decades coaxing industrial nations into lowering their tariff barriers to international trade. As head of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) ever since its creation in 1948, he earned a reputation as a trusted and respected mediator. But when cooperation eluded him, the outspoken Briton's most characteristic tactic was a blunt threat to quit. And often enough, that threat got him what he wanted...
...undercuts his own arguments by his hysterically hectoring tone. Christians, he writes, "made all the world a hell." He testifies he has seen scientists at work who are "corrupt, mindless, ignorant." In the end, his book induces only the normal long-sermon doze and the final dogged agreement that, yes, we're not as good as we should...