Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Western leaders easily reached agreement on the defense program, they sidestepped another serious problem: the hostility between NATO members Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. One senior diplomat called the schism "a serious menace to NATO'S eastern flank, perhaps even to the alliance's future. It is a terrible wound." Making it even worse, in NATO'S eyes, is Congress's 1974 embargo on U.S. arms shipments to Turkey, which used weapons provided by the U.S. in Cyprus...
...case Congress did not get that message, Premier Ecevit was even more blunt last week. Saying that he felt "no threat" from the Soviet Union, Ecevit announced that he would visit Moscow later this month to sign a friendship agreement. "It's an increasingly smaller world," he told TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. "It's natural there should be closer cooperation between countries of different alliances...
...walkout occurred during negotiations between the University and the Maintenance Trades Council (MTC), which combines five separate local unions, including Local 40, the carpenters' union where this strike originated. After the MTC contract expired in December, the men worked on the basis of an informal verbal agreement, with the understanding that they would not strike without 30 days' notice...
Monthly meetings between the University and the president of the MTC, beginning this month, are also guaranteed by the agreement. "The meetings are being held to make sure we'll work together to keep the communication gap from opening," Joyce said. Costello said the meetings are "an absolutely good idea. No harm can be forthcoming from dialogue...
...carpenter's work. The unions said Harvard was contracting outside, nonunion carpenters to save money. Harvard denied the accusation, saying the University traditionally contracts out the larger construction jobs. Harvard counterattacked and began preparations to sue the union for violation of the 30-day warning clause contained in the agreement between the University and the unions...