Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agreement must come before any arms aid can be extended. The State Department should also wait until Pakistan and Turkey complete their pact for military, economic, and cultural co-operation. Although long negotiations may slow defense plans, U.S. delay would help show Nehru and the Indian people that arms are for defense against Russia, not for local aggression. While no amount of diplomatic finesse will completely stifle Indian protests, careful negotiations will help muffle them...
...move facilitated Harvard's entrance into the new Ivy League agreement, officially announced last Thursday. Under this pact, each Ivy League team will play seven league games. Although Brown and Dartmouth have comparatively small home stadiums which would mean financial losses for visiting teams, it was emphasized that the teams should play a home and away series as often as possible...
...addition to expanding the principles of round-robin competition, the new league affirmed its ban on spring football practice and athletic scholarship, thereby substantially keeping intact an informal president's pact drawn up in 1945 to prevent commercialization in Ivy college athletics...
...agreement set forth the preservation of the amateur in college sports as its primary objective. The pact bases this aim on the belief that players and coaches should be "permitted to enjoy the game as participants in a form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles...
Although America's recent pact with Spain involved only bases, the Spanish seem to believe it is a license for France's bold actions. And while the State department remains quick the British interpret the silence as mute agreement with France, who is eager to turn every diplomatic twist to his advantage...