Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month, the number of Indo-chinese refugees it will admit as permanent immigrants. The United Nations is making plans for an international refugee conference, to be held in Geneva in mid-July. At week's end Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flew to Bali, along with the Foreign Ministers of Japan, Australia and New Zealand, to discuss the refugee problem with representatives of the countries that have had to deal with it firsthand-the ASEAN (for Association of Southeast Asian Nations) states of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines...
Syria's foreign ventures have soured. Its seemingly endless intervention in Lebanon has demoralized the army. The operation reportedly costs Damascus about $1 million a day. In addition, lengthy negotiations to unify Syria with its often inimical neighbor Iraq have yet to bear fruit. Meanwhile Syria and the other rejectionist Arabs have been unable to prevent the Camp David accords from going into effect or to come up with any viable alternative...
...Another cancer victim in the Middle East is Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Last week doctors removed a malignant tumor from his large intestine...
Egyptian authorities also described Kissinger's visit as "a purely personal thing." One senior Foreign Ministry official said that the Carter Administration "doesn't need him at this point. They're doing fine with the channels of communication they have with us already...
...Union may go on another grain-buying binge, in part to make up for an expectedly poor crop this year. That could cause worldwide demand to outstrip production and lead to shortages. Such speculation has driven up prices for corn, wheat and other grains by prompting buyers-domestic and foreign-to increase their orders as a hedge against being caught short...