Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That same night Begin ordered his Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, to fly from Washington to Jerusalem to seek Cabinet support on late developments in the negotiations. This led to speculation that a tentative agreement might be at hand. By that time the draft treaty had been revised at least seven times, and most of the problems had been either solved or sidestepped. Chief among these was the question of "linkage" between an Egyptian-Israeli treaty and further negotiations on the West Bank and Gaza. The two sides agreed to discuss the matter both in a preamble to the treaty...
...University forced them back on the job on a legal technicality--the able lawyers had inserted a clause in their contract requiring that the B&G Union give the University 30 days notice before striking. But the contract had run out and it was unclear whether the verbal agreement included the 30 day clause. Harvard also slapped the wrists of striking B&G workers by levying disciplinary penalties of suspension without...
...Times reached a settlement with the last of its four striking unions early Monday, when members of the Newspaper Guild, consisting of reporters and editors, voted 226 to 121 to accept a three-year contract. The agreement calls for an average weekly salary increase of $23 in the first two years of the contract and a $22 increase in the third year...
Another objection to Brustein's plan students have voiced is that the professional company would pre-empt undergraduate use of Loeb facilities. The agreement between Harvard and the repertory company should guarantee that House drama groups will continue to have access to the Loeb shop and technical advice from its staff. Brustein proposes reducing the number of undergraduate productions at the Loeb from four to seven a year--but House drama societies, as well as other groups like the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, would continue to provide the lion's share of student...
...insights, but were spared much of the repetitious babble and striving for novelty that accompany big events They also missed some zero-sum punditry-someone must win, someone must lose-of the kind that refuses to believe Sadat and Begin could both intelligently weigh their advantages and conclude that agreement was in their mutual interest. (Or, as a Joseph Kraft column demanded right after Camp David, "Who caved...