Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling Revolutionary Command Council holds the hard-line view that the U.S. lacks the will or the power to put enough pressure on Israel to restore Arab rights in the occupied territories. Therefore, the Iraqis reason, the Arabs must do the job themselves. With Egypt committed to a peace agreement with Israel, the Iraqis invited the Syrians to join in forming a united front to create a plausible new military threat to Israel. Thus, last week, the two Arab Presidents signed a "charter for joint national action," thereby ending their long quarrel...
...Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit Iraqi troops to move into Syria "whenever they are needed...
...trying to persuade moderate Arab states that an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty would be merely the first step toward a comprehensive settlement. To make it easier for the Israelis, he is prepared to allow this point to be made in the preamble to the treaty rather than in the agreement itself. So far, however, the Israelis seem to want no part...
...gone to Tokyo for the formal ratification of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, ending the technical state of war that has existed between the two countries since Japan invaded China in 1931. The agreement restored full political, economic, cultural and diplomatic relations, thus marking the end of a half century of enmity between the world's most populous country and Asia's principal industrial power. For Peking, the treaty served a dual purpose. It virtually guaranteed vital Japanese support for China's new and vastly ambitious plans for modernization. At the same time, it was a stunning geopolitical victory...
...remarked at a press conference for Japanese journalists, his own face cracking into a wide smile. China's target date for modernization is the year 2000, he said, conceding that the goal would be hard to meet. Crucial to China's development will be the $20 billion trade agreement that Peking has already made with Tokyo. Even that arrangement, he declared, "must be doubled and redoubled...