Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impassioned plea was issued last week as an "Appeal to the American People" by Ambassador Nguyen Huu Chi, South Viet Nam's permanent observer at the United Nations. The plea has certainly not gone unheeded. In the U.S. and elsewhere, governments and private citizens have begun to extend a hand to the South Vietnamese, particularly by adopting some of its orphans...
Breathing Space. At the same time as he announced that the canal would be reopened-in fact, Egyptian naval vessels have been sailing through the Suez for several weeks-Sadat agreed to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Sinai at least until July, a shorter extension than Washington had hoped for, but enough to give U.S. diplomats a little breathing space. Among other things, Sadat's maneuver 1) put pressure on the Syrians to renew their own U.N. mandate on the Golan Heights, which expires May 30; 2) strengthened his support in Western Europe...
...PEACE-KEEPING FORCE. I had already agreed during my negotiations with Kissinger to extend the mandate of the United Nations force for one year instead of six months on condition that the disengagement agreement be fulfilled and the Israelis pull back. But after the Israeli rejection, that is past tense. I have made it three months because I want to send a message to the U.S. and the world, an urgent message. But at the end of three months, I will be ready to reconsider my decision if the peace process is being pushed and the momentum maintained...
Ford said the restrictions had enabled Western Europe and Japan to extend $8 billion in credits to the Soviet Union in the past six months...
...Boost the amount of the loans that the Government can make to wheat, corn and cotton raisers who hold their crops off the market while waiting for higher prices and extend the term of the loans to 18 months from the present twelve...