Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter did an excellent job at the Camp David summit [Oct. 2] getting Sadat and Begin to bargain. It is now up to the Arab and Israeli worlds to accept the agreement, to make it work and to keep peace throughout the Middle East. James Palmer Philadelphia...
...congressional leaders, with Carter as a prodding influence, then worked out a gentleman's agreement. They decided that the conferees in each chamber would meet separately and decide what they would offer the other body. As the conferees got down to the touchy differences between House and Senate, they ignored the rules that such vital decisions must be made in public, and went into closed-door sessions...
...down to business. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance served as chairman of the opening sessions. At week's end he left for South Africa, turning over the gavel to Ambassador Alfred ("Roy") Atherton, the President's special emissary in the Middle East. The three partners quickly reached agreement on a mundane but vital procedural issue: instead of breaking up into working groups, each delegation in its entirety would participate in all bilateral or trilateral meetings...
They are wrong, of course, but Duryea won't tell them that. In fact, for several months now, the Republican has been quietly taking a man-sized chunk of credit for the last-minute, spit-and-chicken-wire debt refinancing agreement that was the first step out of New York City's fiscal crisis. Duryea has campaigned well: Peddling his wares upstate, he stresses his early opposition to the Big MAC bond agreement, which he says was designed to make sure the city wouldn't get off with easy terms that might have endangered the state's own bonds...
Patrick G. Maddox, director of External Affairs for the Council on East Asian studies, said the agreement is "a departure from the earlier Chinese position that such arrangements would be subsequent to the normalization of diplomatic relations...