Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trustees of Radcliffe College control the College's finances, but under an agreement last altered in 1977, Radcliffe pays the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences each year for the education of its students...
Byrd told Brezhnev that some Senators were also afraid that the SALT protocol might be regarded as a precedent for future negotiations and that the agreement on non-circumvention might be used to alter existing relations with...
Their verdict on SALT II: a qualified O.K. Said Jones: "All of us judge that the agreement... is in the U.S. national interest and merits [the committee's] support." Choosing his words carefully, he characterized the pact as "a modest but useful step" toward arms control. Chief of Naval Operations Thomas Hayward was still more cautious. Said he: "I want you to understand that I and the other chiefs are not raging enthusiasts for many features of the treaty." Among other things, they are distressed that the pact: 1) does not classify the U.S.S.R.'s new Backfire supersonic...
Brezhnev read a prepared statement, describing the process of negotiating SALT II. He said that Soviet and American negotiators had achieved an "equal and balanced" agreement in which the Soviets had made concessions. He emphasized that the Soviets and Americans had negotiated the treaty thoroughly-"every word, every phrase, hundreds of times...
...those good works may be undone. Peru, hard pressed for foreign exchange, and anticipating the expiration of the La Paz agreement next month, has embarked on a program to slaughter 5,000 male vicuñas out of 29,500 animals in the preserve and surrounding area. The objective is not immediate sales but to preserve vicuña skins until their wholesale worth-already estimated at $5 million -goes up still higher...