Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Predictably, Arab countries protested the agreement with Israel; Algeria requested cancellation of an Arab-Common Market parley that was in the last stages of preparation. The Arabs' pique seemed to be directed not so much at the EEC-Israeli accord, but at the fact that it was signed before any Arab state was brought into the EEC's scheme for a Mediterranean free-trade area...
...recession, meanwhile, is impeding efforts to negotiate still greater freedom of trade. Last week in Geneva, representatives to a GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) parley argued over whether tariffs on farm commodities should be handled by an agricultural subcommittee or by a committee with broader authority. U.S. policymakers want to consider them together; in this manner, Americans and Canadians could agree to let in more European industrial exports in exchange for greater freedom of access to the European market for farm goods. For precisely the same reason, Europeans are lobbying against such linked bargaining. Their argument: recent dock...
...parley, known as the Harvard Model United Nations, had an authorized budget given it beforehand by the 16-member board of directors of its parent organization. The International Relations Council...
Ford's stay in Vail was not all ski and parley. His people beckoned, so each night the Ford entourage attended one or another of the extravaganzas hosted by the celebrities, tycoons and socialites who also were in town. One afternoon the Mid-Vail lodge was electric with rumors that even Jackie Kennedy was also in town...
...concessions-until the elections are out of the way. Israel is also angry about Egypt's continuing blockade of the Bab el Mandeb straits at the southern end of the Red Sea, and in addition it is waiting to see how the Arab summit turns out. If the parley should prove to be a reprise of the Khartoum Conference of 1967, at which the Arabs vowed "no negotiations, no peace, no recognition," then the Israelis would seem to have little reason to make concessions...