Word: meeting
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...bear obviously disagrees. At a meeting with U.S. businessmen in Moscow, a pleased Mikhail Gorbachev said the agreement and the general relaxation of international tensions offer a "window of hope." He added, "The possibilities of finding solutions to the complicated issues engendered in the years of the cold war have become more apparent." President Reagan also applauded the agreement, and praised the "valiant struggle of the Afghan people to rid their country of foreign occupation." The two leaders will meet in Moscow on May 29, two weeks after the Soviet troop pullout is scheduled to begin, to discuss...
...increase in the producer price index. Oil prices, in particular, have been climbing for several weeks and may keep going higher. Reason: for the first time ever, oil producers who remain outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (among them: Mexico, Egypt, Malaysia and China) have agreed to meet formally with the struggling cartel. This expanded group of oil exporters, which controls 57% of production outside the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, could try to boost prices by fashioning an agreement to limit output. While such a pact might fall apart if producers cheat on quotas, as they have...
...Strait of Hormuz, it began a tortured 3,200-mile journey that took it from Mashhad in northeastern Iran to Larnaca, Cyprus, and finally to Algiers. Deadlines came and went as the skyjackers, having already killed two hostages, threatened the lives of the rest if Kuwait did not meet their demand to free 17 terrorists jailed there since 1983 for bombings of the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three of the 17 are under sentence of death; the others are serving terms of from two years to life. The hijackers still held about 30 of the 112 people originally...
Events took a chilling turn on Saturday when the hijackers, frustrated by Kuwait's refusal to meet their demand, invited three reporters to the top of the gangway leading to the craft and demanded that Algeria "fill the airplane with fuel, and we will liquidate our account with Kuwait elsewhere. We don't want to have the massacre in a friendly country." Added the hooded gunman who addressed the reporters: "Kuwait has to know that we do not fear death...
WORLD: Murder, religious zealotry and regional tension meet in a jumbo...