Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joined by Brzezinski and Vance, Carter lunched with Gierek and other high-ranking Poles at the Sejm (parliament) building. For three hours and 45 minutes, they discussed stalled negotiations on troop reductions by NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, Poland's complaints that U.S. antidumping regulations have unfairly hurt its exports and Carter's plea that more Poles be allowed to join their families in the U.S. Afterward Carter announced that the U.S. will provide Poland with $200 million in credits to buy food and feed grains-in addition to an earlier $300 million deal-to help make...
Collegium Musicum and the Glee Club join Phi Beta Kappa and other campus groups in asking Harvard to divest its shares in banks lending money to the South African government. President Bok says, "It's a very complex question...
...isolated, not Egypt, so long as moderate Arabs back the quest for peace. For the moment, the influence of Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization is on the wane. In trying to cope with the conflicting demands of his constituency, Arafat declined to seize the moment, refused to join in the peace process. Jimmy Carter all but read the P.L.O. out of a settlement when he denounced it as "completely negative." In desperation, moderate Palestinians may eventually be willing to go along with any Sadat-Begin arrangement for the West Bank and Gaza. If that happens, radicals would desert...
...furious until this moment. The second disengagement agreement was the last one in the step-by-step policy. We agreed we should get to the substance and to the establishment of peace in the area immediately after the U.S. elections. So after Carter was elected, he started, really, to join with me in beginning a new momentum for the peace process, because the old momentum had stopped...
...most part, Arab diplomacy remained paralyzed by outrage and indecision, as Cyrus Vance discovered during his quick stopovers in six Middle East capitals. He had believed that Jordan's King Hussein would be amenable to joining the Cairo talks at a later stage. Instead, Vance found, the King was determined to remain an uncommitted moderating force, but would probably be prepared to join a Geneva Conference later. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was swamped with his country's own post-civil war problems. In 4½ hrs. of talks in Damascus, Syria's Hafez Assad reiterated his view...