Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court will presumably have to deal with these conflicts, for several pending cases will test the Government's use of preferential treatment in employment. The Communications Workers of America have petitioned the Supreme Court to review a costly agreement between the Federal Government and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. By setting ambitious goals for the promotion of women and minorities, the Government violated seniority rights as well as the 14th Amendment, the union charges. In another case, California building contractors have sued to overturn a requirement of the Public Works Employment Act of 1977 that 10% of the federal...
Carter believes the days of springing decisions on the public without prior warning are over. "I think it's accurate to say," he noted of an accord Gerald Ford had made with the Soviets in 1974, "that when the Vladivostok agreement was reached there was almost a dearth of news about the negotiations. Only when the final agreement was signed was it revealed. All of a sudden you had an accomplished fact. Negotiating points were never understood by the American public or the Congress...
...pressing charges against the two, the U.S. breached an international gentleman's agreement under which foreign spies are merely expelled. Last week the spy charges were not dropped, but the two Russians were released in the custody of Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin, who pledged to present them for trial-if, as seems uncertain, a trial is held...
...Agreement with this argument," wrote Associate Justice William Brennan in the majority opinion, "would invalidate not just New York's laws, but all comparable legislation elsewhere in the nation. We find no merit...
...will not be the end of the world. There will be a new approach." Privately, he has taken comfort from the amount of opposition in Israel to Begin's stand, particularly Weizman's strong reaction. Sadat has threatened in the past to let the Sinai disengagement agreement lapse in October, when it comes up for renewal, if the impasse has not been broken by then. But what he really hopes is that the U.S. will become what he calls a "full partner" in the negotiations. Translation: he wants the U.S. to come up with its own peace plan...