Word: conferred
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...Prime Minister was happy that the U.S. agreed to confer soon on oil imports (Canada wants more than its current quarter of the U.S. foreign quota) and resume general trade-policy discussions (not held since 1967) covering investments, balance of payments and other economic issues...
Though Trudeau was to confer in Washington this week with Nixon on ABM and other questions, Tory Leader Robert Stanfield doubted that it would do much good. "What is the use," he wondered, "of going to Washington with an open mind when the President of the United States has already made up his mind...
...more abstract, but nonetheless emotionally powerful argument against NPT for the now and future advanced nations is that they surrender part of their sovereignty if they pledge themselves to abstain from developing the only weapons that confer big-league status. Also, Europeans in particular question America's willingness to expose its own cities to nuclear retaliation by launching ICBMs against the Soviet Union if the Russians should attack Western Europe...
...refurbished Grand Trianon. Nixon will return the hospitality by giving a dinner at the U.S. Embassy hard by the Place de la Concorde Saturday night: ironically, his hostess will be Eunice Kennedy Shriver, wife of the U.S. ambassador. Sunday, before he leaves for Washington via the Vatican, Nixon will confer with Henry Cabot Lodge and his Viet Nam negotiating team...
After the NATO meetings, Nixon was to confer with Common Market Commission President Jean Rey, a doughty Belgian Eurocrat who once observed: "Building Europe is like building a Gothic cathedral. The first generation knows that they will never see the work completed, but they go on working." Among the topics up for discussion: U.S. problems with inflation and balance-of-payments deficits, the possibilities for a "Nixon round," and speedy implementation of special drawing rights within the International Monetary Fund?"paper gold"?to ease perennial pressures on gold and on the two international reserve currencies, the dollar...