Word: renews
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...government response has served mainly to renew debate over the tough British laws that allow authorities to ban publication of almost any material deemed harmful to national security interests. Of course, the flap has focused attention on Wright's accusations. After the press was barred from reporting the book's charges, Labor M.P. Dale Campbell-Savours used his parliamentary privilege to state the charges before the House of Commons, which the press reported...
...Soviet truculence left Western analysts wondering why Moscow had agreed to the meeting in the first place. Some suggested the Helsinki overture reflected the less menacing and more flexible foreign policy that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev has been developing. The Soviets must renew relations with Israel if they hope to play a central role in any Middle East peace process. They may also have agreed to the meeting in an attempt to defuse hostility within the U.S. Jewish community, thus lessening the chance of anti-Soviet demonstrations should Gorbachev journey to Washington later this year for a summit with President...
...members have always managed to cheat on agreements. Moreover, the current plan is only an interim one. It takes effect on Sept. 1 (the delay results mostly from existing contracts that must be honored) and expires on Oct. 31. The cartel has no guarantee that its members will renew the pact...
...with 35 Congressmen to ask for support to sustain his veto. One danger of such a bill is that American import restrictions would provoke its trading partners to take similar actions, hurting U.S. exports. The Administration is not ignoring the industry, however. Last week the U.S. Government agreed to renew for five years an important international pact that governs trade in textiles. The so- called Multi-Fiber Agreement expands import controls to popular fibers such as linen and silk blends. The pact, said a White House statement, stands "in sharp contrast to the sledgehammer approach" of the congressional bill...
...business equivalent of throwing the bomb on fourth and long, the U.S.F.L. switched seasons to go head to head this fall with the N.F.L. The networks, however, were not buying. ABC did not renew. NBC and CBS, which, like ABC, have a five-year contract to rotate N.F.L. coverage, also would not touch the struggling league...