Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PEKING--Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps and Chinese officials will sign an agreement today paying Americans for property Chinese Communists confiscated 30 years ago, U.S. officials announced yesterday...
Wigglesworth joined Radcliffe in 1972 as head of the Radcliffe College Fund, which received gifts to provide unrestricted funds for the College. Under the 1977 Harvard-Radcliffe Agreement, her office assumed its present title and expanded its responsibilities to include fundraising activities for Radcliffe programs such as the Radcliffe Seminars, the Radcliffe Forum, and the Radcliffe Century Fund...
...about the backgrounds of its potential donors, or so Bok seems to argue: "I am not yet persuaded that Harvard should have an obligation to investigate each donor and impose detailed moral standards." Once Harvard has accepted a gift, he protests, it should not renege on its agreement, because this "may inflict pain on relatives..." The pain inflicted on the donor's victims, of course, doesn't count as much: the oppressed rarely endow chairs...
...blessing in disguise for French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The contract with Iraq was engineered in 1975 by then Premier Jacques Chirac, with Giscard's approval. The deal was kept secret until the following year. Then it was announced as a commercial agreement between several French companies and Iraq, rather than an accord between two nations, thus allowing the arrangement to escape an acrimonious debate in the French parliament. After Chirac's resignation in 1976, Giscard "began having second thoughts about the contract. He feared France would not only be contributing to nuclear proliferation...
Instead Carter will have to deal with Mrs. Thatcher--dubbed the 'Iron Maiden' by the Soviets--who has been openly skeptical of the value of detente and a SALT II agreement. And though the Conservative commitment to increased NATO defense spending may please the Pentagon, a Tory Britain acting more Europe-conscious and less, as the French allege, "as a stalking-horse for American interests," may well be rated a minus by the State Department...