Word: parleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise, the March 29 date proposed by Viet Nam for peace talks with China came and went last week without any parley taking place. Hanoi claimed that as many as 10,000 Chinese troops still occupied parts of its border area, and thus refused to discuss peace terms. Peking insisted that it had withdrawn completely from Viet Nam; U.S. analysts accept that statement, but they also believe that the Chinese have slightly altered the old border for tactical military purposes-"a matter of a hundred yards here and a hundred yards there," as one official...
...fact that he has never been in Moscow to parley in the Kremlin with Leonid Brezhnev and the Politburo will be even more of a handicap to Carter when the Soviet chief makes what is almost sure to be a SALT-signing visit in Washington this spring. The Soviet summit is "big casino," in the words of one American. Carter will be dealing with a superpower, not a nation of poverty that happens to reek with potential...
Clearly the time has come to forget the Alamo, to struggle down memories of the glorious oil nationalization and to try some creative horse trading. President Carter will journey to Mexico in mid-February to trade abrazos and to parley in his struggling Spanish with President Lopez Portillo. Now that Congress has passed the energy bill and U.S. natural gas prices will rise in January, Carter can comfortably sweeten the price for Pemex gas. In order to encourage Mexico's struggling agriculture and industry, and to relieve its population pressures, he would do well to promise higher economic aid, lower...
...Congress dominated by southern conservatives. He was a radical who, for the first time since Lincoln, confronted the nation with the "moral outrage" of the position of the black in society. He was a pragmatist who competed fiercely with the Soviets in the armaments race that he might parley with them from a position of strength. He was an idealist who sent the Peace Corps into Third World areas where Americans had never been before...
...forceful role in bridging gaps where a consensus seems possible. There is no intention, for the moment, of submitting a U.S. "plan," although some State Department officials privately concede that floating a last-ditch American sketch might prove more palatable than reverting to yet another call for a Geneva parley. Washington also wants to persuade both sides to cool their public rhetoric and explore the possibilities of working through more private channels. "Israel and Egypt have, in a sense, always negotiated in public, and when seen in that light, the differences in their positions are understandable," said one U.S. Middle...