Word: conference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets showed "a willingness, even an eagerness to look for ways to resolve our differences," Cohen said later. The Senators had expected to confer mostly with members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. But as the talks went on, they began to see high-level officials-who, to Cohen's surprise, seemed to be studying the details of the build-down plan for the first time...
...council last night approved a resolution calling the mayor to appoint three of their number to confer with the school committee about drawing up a plan which would extend the superintendent's contract, possibly until January...
Going to confession is never easy, but it can try men's souls in Moscow. Since KGB agents presumably keep electronic ears tuned to the foreign community in the Soviet capital, many diplomats, journalists and businessmen who want to confer privately with a priest suspect that their innermost thoughts may be known to others than...
...Kissinger commission traveled to Mexico City and Caracas to confer with leaders of the Contadora process, the regional peace-seeking effort undertaken by Mexico, Venezuela, Panama and Colombia. The group has proposed a draft treaty that would try to stop arms shipments into and between Central American countries, get rid of foreign military advisers and promote democracy. Those goals, Kissinger said in Mexico City, "seem to be consistent with U.S. objectives, or what should be U.S. objectives." Rebellions that arise indigenously, he said, "should not be the concern of the U.S." but should be "worked out by the people concerned...
...between two nations whose needs are sometimes at variance. For this reason, Israel's President Chaim Herzog, just back from a visit to the U.S. himself, warned his countrymen against having "exaggerated expectations" about Shamir's trip to Washington. And, as the Prime Minister and the President confer, the foes of Yasser Arafat may be learning once again the futility of having exaggerated expectations about the durable P.L.O. leader's demise. -By William E. Smith...