Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pact Trouble. The U.S. and Nasser got off to a fine start when John Foster Dulles visited Cairo in 1953 and listened to Egypt's dynamic young leader argue earnestly that the country's troubles lay, not in Palestine, but at home−where a misgoverned and exploited population, grown from 10 million to 22 1/2 million in 50 years, needed land, three square meals, and some intimation of human dignity. With every intention of basing its Middle East policy on a revitalized Egypt, the U.S. poured $25.9 million in economic aid into Nasser's development program...
...Nasser declined to sign a military aid agreement with the U.S. "Too much like 'colonization,' " he said. He did not like the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, either. But it was Israel's 1955 Gaza Strip raid, in which 38 of his soldiers were killed, that Nasser called "the turning point." "Until that moment," said Nasser later, "I felt the possibility of real peace was near." He counterpunched. He had to have more arms, he said...
...back the show of force, in a resolution condemning Nasser as "a permanent menace to peace." Observing the all-Communist opposition, Socialist Mollet said bitterly: "It is sufficient for a cause to be anti-French for Communists to support it. It is a question now, if the Nasser-Shepilov pact will have the same result as the pact of Hitler and Molotov...
...RESCUE PACT between Studebaker-Packard Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. reached secretly last month (TIME, July 30), was finally made official. In addition to the expected provisions, e.g., the aviation company will run Studebaker-Packard under terms of a management contract, Curtiss-Wright revealed that it is negotiating a contract with West Germany's Daimler-Benz A.G. that will give Studebaker-Packard access to new German engineering developments and may ultimately result in the U.S. auto firm's distributing Daimler-Benz cars and trucks...
...when the Shah of Afghanistan dropped by) were put up in an apartment within the walls of the Kremlin itself. New bathrooms were installed, to make the place fit for a king. The purpose of all this red-carpeting: to cozen Iran away from its allies in the Baghdad Pact...