Word: mutual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pomp and ceremony, the Versailles summit [June 14] failed to put forward any concerted plan to overcome the economic crisis or to help the Third World. Though mutual pledges were exchanged and an appearance of unity was displayed, once the spell of Versailles has faded, each of the seven will lapse again into nationalistic self-interest. The Western world badly wants unity, but the summit was just another show of pageantry...
...effect a one-family government that operates by consensus. The kingdom has no constitution, so royal succession is decided by a council of elders within some ruling family. In 1975, when King Faisal was assassinated, the some times hot-headed Prince Mohammed was passed over by mutual agreement in favor of Khalid. But the ruling hierarchy has usually recognized as King the oldest survivor of the 45 legitimate sons born to the various wives of Ibn Saud. The princes last week demonstrated family solidarity again by naming Crown Prince Fahd to in the late King Khalid, and Abdullah...
...Reagan's speech in London: It was propagandistic and ideological. If the Soviet Union and the U.S. want to conduct negotiations on a whole complex of questions that concern, literally, the fate of the earth, then this process has to be based on a certain amount of mutual trust. Speeches like Reagan's undermine that trust and create new tensions between our nations. We are not suggesting that we should love each other. We are not expecting Reagan to turn sentimental about us. We are not going to turn him into a friend of the Soviet Union...
...mutual observance of SALT I and SALT II: If the U.S. will observe SALT I and SALT II, then the Soviet Union, to the same degree, will abide by the provisions of those agreements. Although formally neither side has ratified SALT II, the treaties have been accepted by silent consent...
...Archbishop may have begun a process that could undo the inertia. Aside from future reunification, the "dialogue of charity" among separated Christians, the Pope claims, may already be contributing to an atmosphere of world peace. As he said in Liverpool, "We have to resolve important doctrinal issues. Yet already mutual love, our will for unity, can be a sign of hope in a divided world...