Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union to plumb Khrushchev's intentions by dropping a few hints as to matters on which the West might be willing to negotiate at the proposed Big Four conference, e.g., a "thinning out" of Soviet and Western troops in Germany, a joint Soviet-Western non-aggression pact for Germany...
...foreign alliances," the gaunt, black-browed Iraqi general told a press conference, after his victory over army rivals who favored a merger with the United Arab Republic. "The Baghdad Pact is less than a shadow. The word 'ally' applies only to Arab sister countries in our eyes...
Soviet negotiators demanded that in return Iran should sign no pact with any other country permitting it to set up bases in Iran. President Eisenhower sent the Shah a strong letter, presumably reminding him that the U.S. had stood by his country when the Russians invaded his northern provinces in 1946. Washington also promised more aid. At week's end the Russians went home emptyhanded...
...same dark fate as Cuba's Batista and Iraq's late King Feisal. If the Shah needed any precedent for his maneuverings he could cite the way Molotov bargained for weeks with the British in 1939 and then confronted them with the secretly drawn Stalin-Hiuer pact...
...counter rising union power, six of the biggest U.S. airlines last fall signed a mutual-aid pact to cut losses suffered during strikes (TIME, Nov. 10). Last week the agreement, first of its kind in U.S. industry, got tentative approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board. The united front, said the CAB, "is not adverse to the public interest," so long as passengers from struck lines are routed to all available airlines, not just to pact members...