Word: communique
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...defend its citizens, that would be absurd." Begin neither intimated that Israel would engage in soul searching before undertaking such a raid again nor signaled any possible movement on the stalled negotiations with Egypt about Palestinian autonomy. McFarlane left with nothing more than a limp, almost meaningless, joint communiqué that said: "Any misunderstandings that might have arisen have been clarified...
...Though a communiqué at the close of the two-day gathering asserted that a "majority" of the organization's members had agreed to a 10% production cut along with a price freeze in the range of $36 to $41 per bbl. until January, the agreement had no practical effect. Neither Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest single producer, which accounts for more than 40% of the group's daily output, nor Iran and Iraq, two of the other major suppliers, agreed to the production-cutting provision. All the cuts will have to be carried...
...agreeing to work every fourth Saturday. In effect, that abrogated a guarantee of work-free Saturdays, which the government had promised in last summer's historic strike settlement. Solidarity's national commission wrangled for eleven hours before voting to accept the pact, which the final union communiqué coldly described as "falling far short of expectations...
There was little doubt about the motivation behind the determined harmony inside Poland: the continuing menace of 55 Soviet divisions that remained poised within striking distance of Poland's borders. On New Year's Day, in fact, TASS issued a communiqué that accused "antisocialist forces" in Solidarity of seeking "to push matters to the point of chaos in the economy, hoping to further their subversive aims...
...judge, carried out once again by the Red Brigades, sadly recalled the Moro affair. The victim in this case was Magistrate Guido Giovanni D'Urso, responsible for overseeing the assignment of prisoners in Italy's penitentiaries. The terrorists struck a fortnight before Christmas and have issued "communiqués" with photographs of D'Urso, gaunt and unshaven, seated before a Red Brigades flag and looking much as Moro did during his captivity. The brigatisti have threatened to try him before a "people's court...