Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, Carter and his confreres are unlikely to form anything resembling a tough united front to bargain with OPEC. Diplomats drawing up proposals for the meeting have simply been unable to devise measures that could both win agreement and save on oil bills without cutting economic growth severely...
Carter is likely to win agreement only on the principle that production of synthetic fuels should be encouraged?no international body, and no pledges of hard cash. The seven nations doubtless will exchange promises to cut oil imports and to expand production of coal and nuclear power, but not bind themselves to any specific steps to reach any of those goals...
...Senate fails to ratify the SALT treaty, history will judge it harshly," declared Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. On the contrary, said Washington Senator Henry Jackson, "the U.S. would be better off with no agreement than this...
...House with an air of self-confidence. For 35 minutes, he addressed a group of Congressmen, Senators and other dignitaries, speaking somberly and forcefully and glancing frequently in the direction of Scoop Jackson, the most outspoken of the SALT opponents. The President appealed to the Senate to back the agreement as "a matter of common sense." Without the pact, he said, the U.S. would be pushed into "an uncontrolled and pointless nuclear arms race." The President said "neither side obtained everything that it sought" in the negotiations, and argued that "the package that did emerge is a carefully balanced whole...
...treaties that will give control of the vital waterway to the Panamanians in 20 years. That seemed to settle the issue once and for all, but last week conservatives in the House, just as dead set against the treaties as their colleagues in the Senate, tried to undermine the agreement-and very nearly succeeded...