Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter undertook to answer the critics and skeptics in a major speech at Georgia Tech, where he had once been a student. Originally he had planned a lengthy defense of the pending SALT agreement, but he and his advisers realized that he now had to take a broader approach...
...problem was Taiwan, which until last month was recognized by the U.S. as the Republic of China. Under President Carter's agreement to normalize relations with Peking, the recognition of Taiwan must cease, and yet the U.S. was determined to work out some form of pseudodiplomatic relationship. The result was a lawyer's delight. As of March 1, what used to be the government of China becomes an entity officially designated as "the people on Taiwan"; the U.S. embassy in Taiwan becomes the American Institute, a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia...
Khomeini's purpose in so lavishly welcoming Arafat could have been in part to outflank his leftist opposition in Iran by demonstrating his solidarity with the Palestinians. That view was supported by Chief of Staff Qarani's assurances that Iran would abide by its agreement with the U.S. not to share its arsenal of Amerlean-supplied planes, missiles and other weapons with any other state. Qarani predicted that foreign military advisers, and perhaps some technicians from the U.S., would soon be invited to return to Iran...
Both the Egyptians and the Israelis recognize that without a peace agreement the area from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean could be plunged into prolonged turmoil and stress. Having lost access to Iran's oil, which once provided almost 50% of their needs, the Israelis are eager for a settlement with Egypt that would allow them buyer's rights to crude pumping from the wells in Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. The Ayatullah's zealous denunciations of Israel raised fears that some of the sophisticated U.S. weaponry purchased by the Shah might eventually be lent...
...positions and a few spots on the club's governing board. "They understood that it was ridiculous to run for high office in the club just a few days after they had become members," Tamara Stanton '79, the club president in 1978, said earlier this week. Since there was agreement on the issues and everyone had a rough idea of who was running for what, all involved entered the election meeting expecting no major battles over club offices. After all, they thought, everyone was in agreement on the issues, right...