Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agreement on interpreting international rules for ship movements...
...umbrella agreement" in principle that there should be verification of missile plants and information exchanged even before a treaty to slash long-range nuclear weapons is completed...
...most significant step taken during two days of talks was the Soviets' dropping their insistence that an agreement to curb the U.S. Star Wars missile-defense program be completed before a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty...
Pierce's sudden withdrawal drew bipartisan fire. Lambasting him for "deceitful" conduct, Lantos said the ex-Cabinet member had broken a "gentleman's agreement" concluded after two earlier delays granted at his request. "Not only is Silent Sam silent," said Ohio Republican Donald Lukens, "apparently today he's also invisible." Republican members are expected to support Democrats this week when the subcommittee ponders whether to compel Pierce to appear before it by issuing him a subpoena...
...Moscow, which attempted to avoid intra-alliance finger pointing and instead blamed Bonn. As for Hungary, the Soviets displayed cautious sympathy. In an interview with the BBC, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said that Hungary was "in a Catch-22 situation. On the one hand, it had an agreement with the ((German Democratic Republic)) not to allow G.D.R. citizens to travel to a third country. On the other hand, it had all these people there. It was a very difficult, very unusual situation...