Word: communique
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...citizens made a quick run on foodstuffs. Lebanese television, which normally broadcasts only at night, stayed on all day. Instead of providing live coverage of the battles, though, it tried to divert viewers with cartoons and reruns of soccer matches and Hogan's Heroes. The radio carried army communiqués but dropped its usual programs of Arab music in favor of such soothing Western classics as Gounod's Ave Maria and Brahms' Lullaby...
...joint communiqué, which said that the Peking talks were held in "an unconstrained atmosphere and were earnest, frank and constructive," promised an expansion of trade as well as "scientific, cultural and other exchanges." The exchanges will include imminent visits to China by the Philadelphia Orchestra and U.S. Congressmen, while Chinese gymnasts, an archaeology exhibit and a delegation of nuclear physicists will come to the U.S. Kissinger revealed that there also will be attempts to resolve long-standing commercial disputes resulting from the Communist seizure of power. The Chinese are seeking the release of about $80 million in assets...
...Common Market summit ended, the divisions were still apparent. A 3,500-word communiqué, produced after a prolonged bargaining session that forced delegates to cancel out of a planned farewell party for them and some 400 guests, proclaimed the leaders' common objective: European union by 1980. The nature of that union was not specified. The Dutch, heading the supranationalist contingent within the European Economic Community, even threatened to veto any progress toward monetary union unless it was accompanied by sufficient advances in political integration. The Belgians finally produced a compromise-that the Community leave...
...Joint communiqué concluded...
...President's mood has changed for the better after concluding the long, final negotiations for the joint communiqué at 5 this morning. He then flies to Hangchow. Remarkably, the President abandons his own jet to accompany Chou aboard a Russian-built Chinese Ilyushin aircraft. In Hangchow, he wanders through the parks and islands of historic West Lake...