Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Maritime Union (membership: 40,000), and Captain (tugboat) William Bradley, 55, paunchy president of the evil-smelling International Longshoremen's Association (membership: 52,000), which was thrown out of the A.F.L. five years ago. The three men kicked off the master plan by signing a "conference" pact for the purpose of "discussing and settling jurisdictional disputes, matters of mutual concern and matters affecting progress and stability in the transportation industry." Among those who will be invited to attend the August meeting: Red-Lining Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast's International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen...
Appearing at a press conference with Hoffa and Bradley, Joe Curran, a strong-willed adversary of A.F.L.-C.I.O. President Meany, and a member of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee that recommended the ousting of Hoffa and his teamsters last September, allowed blandly that the new pact "has no bearing whatsoever on the feelings of one member of a union for another. Anyway, lately I don't know what the A.F.L.-C.I.O. constitution provides. And I don't care...
...unpaved streets, argue that it makes little sense for Pakistan to spend 70% of its budget on arms when industry so desperately needs capital. East Pakistan inclines more to a neutralist foreign policy, and can see little profit in joining anti-Communist alliances such as the Baghdad Pact (though, if profit is the standard, Pakistan has received on a per-capita basis three times the U.S. aid given neutralist India). Nor are East Pakistanis much agitated over Kashmir, because if Kashmir were absorbed by West Pakistan, it would reduce the population edge that is about the only political advantage East...
...arms were live replacements for practice warheads that the U.S. shipped to Cuba's President Batista by mistake in 1957 under the mutual-security pact. They represented no change in the current U.S. embargo on arms to Batista. But the rebels, buffeted by combat and terrorism that have taken at least 3,000 Cuban lives, see the world more and more as either friend or enemy, with no middle ground...
...rated issues of Illinois Power Co. and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. withdrew their support, the bonds immediately dropped a point or two, and still had trouble finding buyers. Halsey, Stuart & Co., with a $50 million Consolidated Edison issue, was also in trouble, but it extended its underwriting pact in hopes of getting out of its commitment at a better price in the next few weeks...