Word: ironclad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting started at 9:35 a.m., Jan. 23. Le Duc Tho managed even on this solemn occasion to make himself obnoxious by insisting on ironclad assurances of American economic aid to North Viet Nam. I told him that this could not be discussed further until after the agreement was signed; it also depended on congressional approval and on observance of the agreement. Finally, at a quarter to one, we initialed the various texts. After this, Le Duc Tho and I stepped out on the street in a cold misty rain and shook hands for the benefit of photographers...
...gentleman with the shock of white hair bounces his canoe off rocks in Wyoming's Powder River, then runs it aground. He gives a sharp kick to a cooler and stomps on his spanking new backpack. Eccentric behavior, it would appear, but Sheldon Coleman, 77, has an ironclad defense if forest rangers should arrive with a straitjacket: "Is there any reason why the chairman of the board can't test the products...
...Cambridge taxpayers, also challenges the council action. "Aggrieved taxpayers have automatic standing in these matters," Walsh said. His foes, though, are not defenseless. City council candidate David Sullivan, who drafted the original ordinance, also drafted a 28 page brief outlining its constitutionality. Sullivan confesses that his defense is not ironclad, "I am confident, though, and I doubt very much if any court will grant an injunction against...
...represents 600 Times arid Sunday Times compositors, machine managers and stereotypers, is refusing to come to the bargaining table at all. "Only a fool conspires at the destruction of his members' jobs," says Joe Wade, union general secretary. "No trade union leader in any industry can give an ironclad guarantee of continuous production...
...second issue holding up the Washington negotiations concerns Sinai oil. With unrest spreading in Iran, which supplies 40% of Israel's oil, Jerusalem wants to make sure it has an ironclad agreement to buy Sinai oil from Egypt. It also wants the Neptune Oil Co., a U.S. firm that currently has an Israeli contract to pump oil in the Sinai, to continue to do so. Egypt has refused to deal with Neptune, arguing that the company is working the Sinai fields illegally. Complicating these negotiations is the fact that they are tied to simultaneous bargaining over Israeli troop withdrawal from...