Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showered 12 million safe-conduct passes into the forests. But he had less success with Chin Peng, 36, Chinese-educated leader of the guerrillas. From his jungle lair across the border in neighboring Thailand, Chin Peng sent word that he would be willing to meet Rahman only to discuss "an end to the war," not a surrender. Snapped the Tengku last week: "Unless and until Chin Peng is willing to surrender, there will be no meeting...
...ruling nor resting, though the government announced that he was leaving any minute for a vacation tour which would range from Tokyo to Cairo. But government officials were working to stop the forcible seizure of Dutch properties by workers inflamed with nationalist fervor at The Netherlands' refusal to discuss the question of West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). In East Java, Indonesian army officers confronted a mob that had surrounded the home of a Dutch estate manager. "Are you brave, very brave?" asked one officer. "Yes, yes!" yelled the workers, apparently in the belief that the army would help them...
...endorsed in the U.N. and the Soviets had flatly rejected, argued that any new approach to the Russians should be made through the U.N. France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, adopting as his own what was originally a British suggestion, urged that, instead, the Soviets be invited to discuss the matter with the Foreign Ministers of the four Western nations on the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee-Britain, France, the U.S. and Canada. In the end, it was the U.S. that gave ground. The compromise solution: any new negotiations should be "preferably within the framework...
...week's end some discouraged motormen, threatened with dismissal, were shuffling sadly back to work. Subway service was clunking back to normal-and so was the city. Bedeviled Mayor Wagner (a "jellyfish," snorted the New York Herald Tribune), refused to discuss the issue until the M.B.A. canceled its "illegal strike." The motormen could only appeal to Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, who, many suspected, would only appeal to Bob Wagner, who would only appeal...
...nation Atlantic Alliance also offered in a windup communique to meet the Russians on the foreign minister level to discuss disarmament, an issue now stalled in the United Nations. British sources suggested later that other issues also might be discussed...