Canada will drop its opposition to Nafta's coming into force on Jan. 1 after receiving American concessions.

The fear was that the Soviets would pocket any American concessions and never reciprocate.

Two changes were made on Thursday, each an American concession.

He returned to Germany without any American concessions.

There could be some hostile Congressional reaction to the American concession on the arbitration panel.

French and American concessions followed soon afterwards.

Mossadeq invoked the communist threat to gain American concessions.

It is easier, they say, to block American concessions than to negotiate difficult compromises.

He said everyone had benefited from the American concessions that led to an end to the competition.

But United Nations officials described the American concessions on fisheries and chemicals as significant.