Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geneva. Last week Kissinger met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in that city, primarily to discuss nuclear disarmament. On the Middle East, Gromyko indicated that the Soviets would not impede Kissinger's negotiations-provided that all parties agreed to return to Geneva for formal ratification of any pact...
Died. Durga Prasad Dhar, 57, Indian diplomat and Ambassador to Moscow, who negotiated New Delhi's 1971 nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union and was a principal architect of India's military intervention in neighboring East Pakistan's civil war, which led to the creation of independent Bangladesh; following a heart attack; in New Delhi...
...producers. Copper prices, for example, have fallen 86? per pound in the past year to 54?, despite substantial production cutbacks by four large producers-Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaïre. To benefit from a sudden jump in coffee prices, Brazil and other growers ignored an international coffee pact more than a year ago; now that prices are down they want a new agreement...
Perhaps even more significant, the pact may well provide a commercial link of sorts between Israel and the Arab states-at least in the sense that they will both be privileged trading partners of the EEC. The agreement with Israel is only an initial step in an ambitious Common Market plan to tie the whole Mediterranean basin into a free-trade area linked to the EEC. The Europeans are now negotiating similar agreements with the nations of the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), to be followed eventually by pacts with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria...
...Israelis also scored with an economic accord signed in Washington last week by Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz. Unlike the EEC pact, it touches only lightly on trade matters, but provides for joint financing of a $20 million desalination plant, the supply of raw materials by the U.S. and, most important, the encouragement of private U.S. investment in Israel-which was down 50% in the recession year...