Word: mutuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showing the flag would hurt, not help, the U.S. and its true friends. Bill felt that "we have an excellent chance in Iran-unless, of course, we send some aircraft carriers storming over there." In Bill's mind, any attempt by the U.S. to form an old-fashioned mutual defense alliance-"Baghdad Pact II, CENTO n, something like that"-would also work against the U.S. Such a step, warned Bill, "would certainly force the Iranians into the hands of the Soviets...
...statement released this week by Michael Weiner, head of the new management, says Hemisphere is "not legally bound by any agreement between the station's union and WBCN's previous management." It concludes by calling for a halt to the union's 18-day strike and an "atmosphere of mutual understanding and respect...
More important, however, the normalization requires the abrogation of Washington's 1954 Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan, and many key Senators were dismayed that the U.S. had won no promise from Peking not to regain Taiwan by force. Their concern was especially germane in light of the current Chinese invasion of Viet Nam. Conservative members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee demanded that the enabling legislation for the opening of relations include a strong reassertion of U.S. guarantees to protect Taiwan. For a time, they thought they had the support of both Committee Chairman Frank Church and ranking Republican...
...signed with much ceremony in Moscow by Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and the Vietnamese Communist Party head, Le Duan, as well as Premier Pham Van Dong. Inside the usual bouquet of trade and cultural agreements there was no mistaking the glaring military nutshell: an ambiguous degree of mutual defense, to the extent of "consultations and appropriate effective measures to ensure the peace and security of their countries." For Peking the treaty was a stinging political rebuke...
...chief fabulist. His images were stories first, paintings second, but the stories were not narratives in the Victorian manner, or slices of life or tableaux of history. They were snapshots of the impossible, rendered in the dullest and most literal way: vignettes of language and reality locked in mutual cancellation. As a master of puzzle painting, Magritte had no equal and, although his influence on the formation of images (and on how people decode them) has been wide, he has had no real successors...