Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over Rhodesia--and over the nearly six million Africans who reside within its boundaries--have beaten the odds for 13 years, and they are doing their darndest to stay in power. True, Rhodesia is closer to a change in rule--either through the domestic process outlined by an "interim agreement" signed in March, or by the intervention of Front troops led by Joseph Nkomo and Robert Mugabe--than it has ever been. But it is likely that Smith and his cohorts will hang on a while longer, both by holding off the guerrilla forces and by poking enough loopholes...
...best and the brightest, some believe Harvard's educational reputation demands a reassessment of these anomalies. At least one junior faculty member, however, doubts Harvard's willingness to face this challenge. He says, "To change the situation, you need a coordinated, articulate and thoughtful student demand, and agreement at the very top decision-making levels of the University that reforms need to be made. I am not optimistic...
...haggling, which has long since become a routine aspect of relations between the two countries, is still going on. In 1970, the Nixon Administration paid dearly (to the tune of about $500 million a year in additional aid) for the ceasefire with Egypt. Henry Kissinger's 1975 Sinai agreement may well have been the most expensive pact ever negotiated. It not only pledged enormous financial and political support but also opened America's arsenal of advanced weapons to Israel and guaranteed Israel's oil supply for five years. Since Iran still supplies about 50% of Israel...
High up on the list of American complaints is the sluggishness with which Japan has moved to live up to the trade agreement that was concluded with the U.S. last January. That pact pledged Japan to cut tariff walls and quotas, with the aim of bringing U.S.-Japanese trade back into balance by 1980. But there have been few signs that the promises are being kept, and trade hassles with the Japanese are still regularly in the headlines (last week's concerned Japanese import quotas on American beef and oranges...
Ford executives say that Iacocca's new job "came as a surprise." Only 24 hours before, Ford had announced a severance agreement with Iacocca that granted him a termination payment of $400,000 plus a separation payment of $275,000; he also stood to get $1.1 million in additional payments, on condition he did not go to another auto company. No one at Chrysler would say what Iacocca would be paid now, but almost certainly he is not going to miss his forfeited Ford pay very much. According to some reports, he was guaranteed a salary package totaling more...