Word: communique
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steady stream of worshipful Iranian supporters line up to receive instructions from Banisadr. At a dining-room table, a dozen young Iranian students work on mimeographed communiqués. Husky bodyguards carefully screen all visitors. The former President is seated on a couch before a big mahogany coffee table. Above his head hangs a campaign poster of himself. He now has neither the mustache nor the glasses that appear in the picture. Relaxed in shirtsleeves, his shoes off, he appears slightly pudgy and tired, but good-humored and confident...
...conference's final eleven-page communiqué, when it was issued from Ottawa's National Arts Center, contained few surprises, offering inoffensive concessions to all participants' points of view. On interest rates, for example, the document said: "We see low and stable monetary growth as essential to reducing inflation. Interest rates have to play their parts in achieving this and are likely to remain high where fears of inflation remain strong. It is also highly desirable to minimize volatility of interest rates and exchange rates...
That is hardly the case. Successive Washington Administrations have performed a difficult and delicate diplomatic balancing act adhering to the "one China" policy laid out in the 1972 Shanghai agreement between Washington and Peking without offending either the mainland Chinese or the people of Taiwan. In that communiqué, and in the later normalization agreement of 1978 between the U.S. and China, both countries agreed that Taiwan was technically part of China. But the U.S. did not want to abandon its old allies on the island. Under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, Washington agreed to promote commercial and cultural...
...defend its citizens, that would be absurd." Begin neither intimated that Israel would engage in soul searching before undertaking such a raid again nor signaled any possible movement on the stalled negotiations with Egypt about Palestinian autonomy. McFarlane left with nothing more than a limp, almost meaningless, joint communiqué that said: "Any misunderstandings that might have arisen have been clarified...
...Though a communiqué at the close of the two-day gathering asserted that a "majority" of the organization's members had agreed to a 10% production cut along with a price freeze in the range of $36 to $41 per bbl. until January, the agreement had no practical effect. Neither Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest single producer, which accounts for more than 40% of the group's daily output, nor Iran and Iraq, two of the other major suppliers, agreed to the production-cutting provision. All the cuts will have to be carried...