Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state and the rest of the world -- have always failed. For example, in 1972 the superpowers signed a "code of conduct" in Moscow that included a commitment by each side not to "obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other." Leonid Brezhnev & Co. made a mockery of that agreement by pouring Cuban proxies into Angola and military advisers into Ethiopia. The Soviet Union has traditionally defined its own security to the detriment of everyone else's. The men in the Kremlin demonstrated over and over that they would not feel entirely secure until everyone else in the world felt...
...essence of such an agreement would be for the U.S. to de-emphasize containment as a theme in its policy insofar as the Soviets are willing to demilitarize their own international behavior. What that would mean in practice would vary from one part of the world to another. In Europe -- the original front line of the cold war and still the most important potential "regional conflict" -- there should be negotiation that could eventually lead to drastic cutbacks in NATO and the Warsaw Pact in exchange for genuine self-determination for Eastern Europe...
City Councillor William H. Walsh on Friday toured two Harvard housing complexes to test his theory that the University profits from the city of Cambridge by taking advantage of a longstanding real estate agreement...
...Friday I visited Peabody Terrace and the apartments on Irving Street," said Walsh. "I wanted to see how affiliated housing gets exempted from paying taxes and what they will do on December 31 when their agreement expires...
According to Walsh, the Council should consider putting the affiliate housing back on the tax rolls when the in-lieu-of-taxes agreement expires this December 31, because it might produce more revenue for the city...