Word: mutual
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...would not be serving our own country or the world at large should we stop our efforts to achieve arms reductions." Such an approach would be in keeping with the Administration's "two track" policy toward the Soviets, challenging them when U.S. interests require it, seeking agreements when mutual interests are served...
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms stepped off Flight 015. He was part of an official six-man congressional delegation representing the U.S. at a conference in Seoul to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty between South Korea and the U.S. Helms stopped to chat with a young Australian couple and their two daughters from Flight 007. "She was reading to those beautiful little girls," he recalled later, through tears. "It was the most marvelous thing you could have seen." With Helms was Idaho Senator Steve Symms. They looked for Georgia Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald, who was scheduled...
American Express apparently leaped before it looked hard enough. Little more than a month after it had trumpeted an agreement to buy Investors Diversified Services, the main subsidiary of Alleghany Corp. and a major marketer of mutual funds and life insurance, American Express last week backed out of the deal The company was admitting, as Wai Street had been saying all along, that the price for IDS, some $1 billion in American Express stock or nearly three times Alleghany's book value, was too high American Express left open the possibility of a new agreement but only with "revised...
...month. The First National Bank of Danvers, the only bank in town, with 2,560 accounts and about $11 million in deposits, was declared insolvent by federal authorities and shut down until new owners could reopen it under another name. That same day 2,000 miles away, the Oregon Mutual Savings Bank in Portland also closed its doors before being taken over by an Idaho holding company. The bank had seen its net worth fall nearly 20% in just six months. Said President Jack Goetze: "Without a capital infusion, our net worth would have been seriously impaired in another...
...resuming consular negotiations and sending a delegation off to Moscow to negotiate "confidence-building measures," like upgrading the hot line. The two countries have agreed on a major sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union. The State Department is musing about how to engage the Soviets in mutual restraint and perhaps even joint diplomatic initiatives in the Third World, particularly southern Africa. Both leaderships recognize that unremitting hostility is wasteful and dangerous. Yuri Andropov's Politburo is trying to figure out what to do about social and economic stagnation; it is preoccupied with the pacification of Poland...