Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a long year of keeping his political distance from Carter, Byrd plunged into the treaty battle. At his urging, Carter and Torrijos issued a joint statement clarifying two points in the treaties: that the U.S. would permanently retain the right to defend the waterway's neutrality, and that in an emergency U.S. Navy vessels would "go to the head of the line" through the canal...
...talks the delegates narrowed the gap toward a Sinai settlement. The Egyptians reportedly suggested that the Israelis could keep their settlements in the Rafah salient of the northern Sinai for a limited time (the exact period to be decided later), as part of a U.N. buffer zone, and retain their settlements along the Gulf of Aqaba?but only under Egyptian rule, as Cairo's "welcome guests." More important, the Egyptians seemed ready to allow Israel to keep its big military airbase at Etzion and continue using the military airbase at Eitam as a civilian airfield. Weizman took the proposals home...
Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, urging young people to retain their idealism: "If you have to choose between being Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, for heaven's sake...
McGlynn added that he has made an informal offer to Harvard that would allow the University to retain custody of the documents for 100 years. If Harvard and the state do not reach an agreement, the state would most likely press its claim to ownership in court, McGlynn said...
Despite the charges and counter charges, both governments were avoiding actions that would lead to an open break. Dismissing the manifesto as a mere "atmospheric disturbance," the East German official envoy in Bonn, Michael Kohl, declared that the Communists "retain their interest in a continued improvement of relations." Last week West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stated soothingly that he felt the East German leadership "intends to continue the process of relaxation of tensions." In fact, there are good reasons for both sides to pursue Ostpolitik, Germany's form of detente. East Germany's stake in good relations involves...