Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebration will be a backyard barbecue?if the sporadic strikes by independent truckers protesting the scarcity and soaring price of diesel fuel do not cause new shortages at the supermarkets. Gas lines in Eastern cities are getting longer, despite the spread of odd-even sales restrictions, and the Tokyo agreement to limit petroleum imports obviously will do nothing to shorten them, since it is a scarcity of imported crude to refine that caused the lines in the first place...
...agreement, such as it is, was not reached without tension and dispute. On the eve of the summit, Carter let it be known that he was "deeply angry" about a remark by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing that the Americans "haven't even started" to curb wasteful use of oil. Once the sessions began, however, Carter's principal opponent was not Giscard but German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who conducted what the American President wearily described to aides as a filibuster in favor of the European plan; the difficult personal relations between the two had rarely been more strained...
...energy, of course, cannot preoccupy a U.S. President to the exclusion of all else, and Carter had other matters on his mind in the Far East. In Tokyo, he announced that the U.S. would take in 14,000 Vietnamese refugees a month, double the figure now, and won agreement from his fellow summiteers to press for an international conference on the boat people's plight. In Korea, from which Carter had once pledged to withdraw U.S. troops, he had to reassess a military situation that makes withdrawal difficult...
...years ago-and immediately ridiculed by the Soviets. In fact, the U.S. in the 1960s decided against building anything like the Soviets' SS-9s and SS-18s, which are liquid-fueled ICBMs, and developed instead the smaller and more accurate, solid-fueled Minuteman missiles. Moreover, the SALT I agreement, signed by President Nixon in 1972, and the Vladivostok agreement signed by President Ford in 1974, permitted the Soviets to keep the heavy missiles in exchange for dropping their longstanding demand that the U.S. nuclear force in Europe, as well as the British and French nuclear arsenals, be counted under...
...Nicaragua. Declared Vance: "There is mounting evidence of involvement by Cuba and others in the internal problems of Nicaragua." That charge drew an angry reply from Cuba's foreign ministry, which released a statement accusing the U.S. of "pressuring several Latin American diplomatic representatives to come to an agreement in the OAS that would facilitate a military intervention in Nicaragua" in order to "preserve the essence and basis of the bloody and corrupt neo-colonial regime dominated...