Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absurd for the U.S. to establish a simple, legal basis from which to operate should Panama abrogate the treaty. Both Panamanians and Americans deserve to know what standard will apply if the treaty is not upheld. My amendment made it clear that if Panama goes back on this agreement, all other agreements and treaties we had with the Panamanians would re-enter into force...
...cars, rather than bringing them across the River to the Business School lot. Whether they are visiting a friend, packing to leave, or grabbing a meal, students often return to find an empty space, their car now in the possession of Pat's. (Burns says, however, that under the agreement between Harvard and Pat's, the tow truck should drop the car without charge if a student comes out to claim his car before the truck has pulled away...
Warren Christopher, 52. As meticulous, painstaking and self-effacing as his boss, the Deputy Secretary has been called "Vance's Vance." Also a lawyer, he has been the principal troubleshooter for the eastern Mediterranean region, recently concluding an agreement with Turkey by which the U.S. embargo on arms sales would be lifted in return for concessions by Turkey on Cyprus. He has also dealt with some even stickier problems: pushing the Panama Canal treaties, trying to convince Germany and Brazil that they should abandon a nuclear power plant deal and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he should publicly accept...
...human rights for the State Department. A Rhodes scholar and whiz kid member of the White House staff under Lyndon Johnson while in his 20s, Nimetz has been tapped by Vance for the difficult job of coordinating the State Department's campaign to sell any proposed SALT agreement to Congress and the country...
...armies in the event of full-scale war. Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, whose political position has been weakened by his handling of the operation, replied lamely: "I gave the air force orders to use the bombs. But you have to believe me that I was not aware of the agreement [with Washington]. The Chief of Staff [Mordechai Gur] forgot to inform me of it." That statement was greeted with a pregnant silence...