Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARCH 6,1974. Exploring a compromise, Kissinger and Jackson consider allowing the President to extend the trade benefits if the Soviets would give specific assurance that they would end harassment of emigres and substantially increase levels of emigration over the high mark set in 1973. Kissinger tells Jackson that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has privately assured him that the flow of Jewish emigres will increase and harassment will diminish...
Despite widespread optimism that a way had been found at least to persuade the I.R.A. to extend last week's deadline, perhaps indefinitely, the Provisionals' bitter rejection of the truce re-emphasized the basic problems of the conflict itself. Neither the British government nor the I.R.A. ever seemed prepared to concede very much. The British diplomatic moves during the truce were tempered by fear of triggering a violent Protestant backlash while being drawn into a trap by the I.R.A. The government was also counting heavily on its judgment that the Proves were mainly intent on arranging a face...
...Faculty Council voted Wednesday to extend the 1975-1976 Christmas vacation by one week as a result of an irregularity in next year's schedule...
...increased military aid for embattled South Viet Nam, a request that will be met in Congress with hot resistance or icy indifference. But Ford's persuasive powers with the legislative branch may prove useful. By buttonholing senior Senators last month, he was able to persuade them to extend the cutoff date for military aid to Turkey...
...contest is the first of a two-game weekend series at home, with Colgate scheduled for Saturday evening. Harvard (10-2 overall) will seek to extend its undefeated ECAC-Ivy record, while Cornell (8-2-1 overall) will attempt to better its 1-1 Ivy mark and Colgate will try to up its dismal 1-9 ECAC standing...