Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, April 8--The United States and Saudi Arabia today announced formal agreement on the five-year airfield-for-arms pact approved last February by President Eisenhower and King Saud...
...meeting now in session in London. But the Russian notes suggest that more is involved than a prudent looking to their defenses. Russia, on the diplomatic defensive since Hungary, is apparently trying to go over to the attack. It has decided, said Bulganin, to "strengthen most decisively the Warsaw Pact, whether the imperialists like it or not." The Soviet news agency Tass warned that "a new aggression against Egypt" would create "the direct threat of a broad military conflict." In Moscow last week, Hungarian Puppet Premier Janos Kadar reached an agreement to "strengthen the punitive side of the proletarian dictatorship...
...propose to use our oil income while we have it to create other sources of wealth. We aim to change everything. But we propose to do it by evolution, not revolution. Nasser's way is not our way." As the only Arab member of the Baghdad Pact, Iraq...
ITALIAN-IRANIAN OIL pact will make Italy's state-owned ENI company a major operator in Middle East, give it drilling rights in Iran's rich new fields (potential production: 35 million bbl. a year) at Qum. Combine of U.S., British, Dutch and French companies already operating in Iran was refused permission to exploit Qum, fears that terms of deal giving Iran 70% to 75% share of profits will upset traditional fifty-fifty split...
Last week, in a calculated rebuke to Nasser, the U.S. joined the military committee of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, an organization against which Nasser has raged almost as unceasingly as have his Russian friends. By a design, Ike's special ambassador, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, is touring friendly Middle East lands first, explaining U.S. aid-without-strings, thereby increasing the isolation of Nasser and adding to the pressures against extremist regimes in Jordan and Syria...