Word: communique
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Richard Nixon called it "the week that changed the world," and he was not exaggerating. On Feb. 28, 1972, at the close of the American President's historic trip to China, he and his host, Premier Chou Enlai, signed the Shanghai Communiqué calling for a renewal of relations between the U.S. and China, implacable enemies since the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The agreement led to an immediate exchange of diplomats by the two nations that had fought so bitterly on the battlefields of the Korean War. Despite the problems that persist, particularly those concerning...
...would continue to supply the Taiwan government with F-5E supersonic fighters. The Chinese argue that the U.S. should set a deadline for ending all arms transfers to Taiwan, or at least should demonstrate that it is beginning to curtail its support for an island that the Shanghai Communiqué treated as "a part of China...
...exultant guerrillas quickly issued a communiqué claiming that they had destroyed 28 aircraft. A tight-lipped General José Guillermo Garcia, Defense Minister in the country's civilian-military government, gave figures that were much lower: "about eleven" aircraft and four of the helicopters that are so useful in fighting El Salvador's long-smoldering guerrilla war were destroyed. There was no doubt, however, that the insurgents had dealt the government a major setback. Said a U.S. military officer about the airport raid: "Disastrous...
...Moscow, meanwhile, where Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek was conferring with his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, a joint communiqué denounced the NATO declaration as "an attempt at grossly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." In a separate commentary, however, the Soviet news agency TASS expressed the hope that disagreements over the Polish question would not compromise the U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva on limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons...
...same time, Dozier's abductors issued a ten-page communiqué that provided details of his interrogation by a "people's court." In the transcript, the presiding officer explains to Dozier why he was captured: "Your military career is the story of American aggression against the battle for liberation and revolution in Southeast Asia and against the proletariat struggle in Europe...