Word: general
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the tension at the beginning, both sides characterized the five hours of private talks as friendly, courteous and businesslike. The first bilateral session was held in the Spanish colonial Palacio Nacional, but it was just general and polite. The two Presidents got down to specifics the next day at Los Pinos, Lopez Portillo's official residence. Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press...
...star witness was the cool, enigmatic, self-described leader of the assassination squad, Michael Vernon Townley, 36, an American who cooperated with the prosecution in return for a lenient sentence of three years and four months. Townley testified that Letelier's murder had been ordered by General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, chief of the now defunct Chilean secret police, DINA. According to Townley, Contreras had demanded the killing because Letelier, a socialist, was considered a dangerous opponent of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime...
...delegates met yesterday in the Yard in committees patterned after actual U.N. committees and in sessions of the General Assembly and Security Council, Sam N. Levin '80, Secretary-General, said yesterday...
Levin said the Nicaraguan delegate appeared in the General Assembly session yesterday in full military attire, studded with medals, a sash and red beret...
Yesterday the committee met again to talk about the controversy. After two hours of discussion, the committee resolved to write Calkins asking him to clarify both the role of the committee and the University's policy on boycotts in general. "Some people were still pretty upset about it," Stone said after the meeting. Epps plans to draft the letter soon...