Word: agreement
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Following the angriest Mexican-American confrontation since General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing chased Pancho Villa south of the border in 1916, the two countries last week initialed an agreement for the sale of 300 million cu. ft. of gas daily at an initial price of $3.63 per 1,000 cu. ft. The gas involved amounts to less than 1% of total U.S. consumption and is far under the 2.2 billion-cu.-ft.-per-day deal envisaged in July 1977 when Pemex, the Mexican state oil company, signed a letter of intent with six American pipeline companies...
Almost everyone acknowledges that the Soviet brigade does not violate the 1962 Soviet-American agreement that ended the Cuban missile crisis. Nor does it come anywhere near as close to straining the spirit of that agreement as did the berthing of Russian atomic submarines in Cuba in 1970 (see Kissinger: White House Years) or the stationing of MiG-23s on the island in 1978.* Nor is the brigade plausibly a strike force for an assault on Guatemala or Key West. Nor did it arrive recently enough to be a deliberate, mischievous test of Jimmy Carter's will. Nor does...
During our first talk, on July 9, by tacit agreement we did not press controversial issues to the hilt. Taiwan was mentioned only briefly. But at the next day's session the mood was different. With very few preliminaries Chou recited a fierce litany and closed with a challenging question?whether, given our vast differences, there was any sense in a presidential visit...
...spent over 25 hours together reviewing the world situation, another 15 working on a statement that later came to be known as the Shanghai Communique. Nixon had seen and approved a draft communique prepared by me and my staff. It followed the conventional style, highlighting fuzzy areas of agreement and obscuring differences with platitudinous generalizations. Quite uncharacteristically, the Premier made a scorching one-hour speech?at the express direction of Mao, he said?declaring that our approach was unacceptable. The communique had to set forth fundamental differences; otherwise the wording would have an "untruthful appearance." Our present draft...
...agony of Viet Nam": the unannounced bombing of Cambodia and the attack on the sanctuaries there; the secret negotiations in Paris-how the premature "peace is at hand" statement came to be made; the Christmas bombing; the turmoil caused by antiwar protesters in the U.S.; and the peace agreement. In the final week Kissinger writes of the near confrontation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over a crisis in Jordan; the reason for Nixon's famed "tilt" toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India-and a secret decision to give major aid to Peking if the Soviets threatened China...