Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week Feisal arrived in Amman with a planeload of aides. The negotiators deadlocked in shouting dissension over Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact. Hussein's men said their Palestinians would riot rather than be party to a pact that Nasser's propaganda labels a symbol of Western imperialism, and that Saud would never join them unless Iraq pulled out of the pact...
...reportedly let the Syrians know that if their state was swallowed up, the promised Soviet aid program was off. Washington was also concerned at possible effects on the delicate balance in the Middle East. If Nasser had hoped to turn the Middle East's eyes from the Baghdad Pact meeting, he had dramatically succeeded...
...often before, e.g., when he nationalized the Suez Canal after the U.S. rebuffed his bid for Aswan Dam aid, Nasser had counterpunched. But it was too early to tell whether this time he had counterpunched at the Western sponsors of the Baghdad Pact or the Soviet sponsors of subversion in Syria-or both...
...Banda's regime last week signed an economic agreement with the Soviet Union for machinery and technical aid in return for Ceylon's tea. In the last year, 600 Ceylonese have toured the Soviet Union as Moscow's guests. Under a new Soviet-Ceylonese cultural pact, 21 Russian teachers last week bustled about the island meeting their Ceylonese counterparts. Premier Banda professes no fear that his tiny country might be overwhelmed in such exchanges. "My dear fellow," he assured a visitor, "there is great power in Buddhist thought. Our impact is much greater than our size would...
Bragging Rights. Despite such minor frictions, most newsmen hoped that the Yates pact would continue in force (though the A.P. complained that it created an "in-between shadowland"). While Airman Yates (who also has a master of science degree from Caltech) had previously proved more adept at dodging newsmen than dealing with them-notably as General Eisenhower's top U.S. weatherman through the Normandy landings-he had clearly succeeded in bringing cooperation out of chaos at Canaveral. Already well liked by the press, the Maine-born general won new popularity at week's end by giving newsmen handsomely...