Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be struck. Although P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat has hinted privately that the P.L.O. might be ready to recognize Israel, his position has generally fallen far short of the unequivocal public declaration the U.S. would demand. Hopes for a deal rose somewhat on Sunday when Arafat signed a document accepting "all U.N. resolutions relevant to the Palestinian question." California Republican Paul N. McCloskey Jr., visiting Beirut with five other Congressmen, said that the P.L.O. leader in effect had recognized Israel's right to exist. By doing so, McCloskey said, Arafat had cleared the way for direct negotiations with...
...fight. Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer warned Boeing's chairman, T. A. Wilson, "We're going to fight you tooth and nail." The strategy for the House battle was disclosed in June, when a Lockheed computer printout was leaked to the press. The 27-page document revealed that Lockheed executives and Air Force and Department of Defense officials had met almost every morning in the office of Air Force Major General Guy Hecker Jr. for strategy sessions. The printout listed more than 250 Congressmen who were to be lobbied by either military personnel or some 40 companies...
...complex treaty negotiations, which began in 1974, involved diplomats from 154 countries. The document covers issues ranging from the definition of an island to pollution safeguards. It guarantees freedom of passage on the high seas and sets a twelve-mile territorial limit and 200-mile "economic," or fishing, zone for coastal nations. The pact also spells out strict rules for seabed mining and establishes an International Seabed Authority to govern the harvesting of ocean minerals. That organization would set up its own mining enterprises, retaining mine sites equal in size or value to every site awarded to private companies; those...
...week later, MIT signed an agreement promising not to purchase property in the area for one year. The current flap revolves primarily around which document is recognized...
Somehow De la Madrid has escaped the controversy surrounding the outgoing administration even though, as Mexico's Secretary of Programming and Budget, he was responsible for Lopez Portillo's grandiose Global Plan for Development, a document that has now been discreetly shelved. One reason De la Madrid may have escaped criticism is his innocuous lifestyle. Highly disciplined and a deeply religious Roman Catholic, he is untouched by any hint of scandal. He likes to spend the weekend reading in his garden. Says one diplomat who has known De la Madrid for years: "He lives comfortably...