Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Rosovsky declined last night to discuss whether Moynihan had made any arrangements with the University for a leave of absence...
Strategically, the oil producers are very cleverly enlisting the support of the Third World by demanding that energy problems not be discussed in isolation. They are endorsing the controversial contention of the developing countries that fluctuating world commodity prices need some sort of price-stabilization arrangement. The four oil exporting nations at the Paris meeting (Algeria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela) succeeded in getting the very word energy removed from the formal title of the conference. Sid-Ahmed Ghozali, chief of Algeria's state oil company, Sonatrach, snapped, "We didn't ask for an energy conference...
...Brown, student and administrative representatives met for two hours yesterday to discuss ground rules for negotiations on the proposed budget cutbakcs...
...GENEVA AGENDA. There will be no peace so long as there is occupation. Because this is a fact, I don't believe we will be discussing withdrawal from the occupied territories. We may discuss a timetable but not the principle of withdrawal itself. This is taken for granted. The conference should concern itself mainly with mutual security questions. I need guarantees more than Israel does, and I am ready to accept them from whatever body can offer them, whether it's the two superpowers, the four powers, the five powers [including China] or the U.N. Security Council...
Lake of Wine. Next week the Common Market agriculture ministers will meet to discuss ways of siphoning off the surplus wine that now threatens to engulf all Southern Europe. One solution is to distill it into alcohol for industrial purposes-an expensive process that would require unpopular subsidies by all Common Market nations. Another proposal: sell it to the Soviet Union, which is willing to buy up to 26.4 million gal. at rock-bottom prices. A third solution: give some of the excess to soldiers, hospital patients and inmates of old folks' homes. British Labor Party M.P. Neil Kinnock...