Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospect for the U.S. are tough negotiations with Morocco over the future of four major U.S. bomber bases. Another delicate problem: Morocco is being courted by 1) Egypt to join its "neutralist" sphere of influence, 2) Iraq, worried by Egyptian expansionism, to link up with the pro-Western Baghdad Pact. State is not passing out advice to Morocco in such a delicate situation, but "believes" that the Moroccans will want to stick to an independent role to get maximum leverage in the air-base negotiations...
...said, "that Greece has worked up this whole tremendous agitation simply to be able to annex an island 40 miles from Turkey and 600 or 700 miles from her own mainland. In doing so the Greek government has not hesitated to imperil the future of NATO, of the Balkan Pact [Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia] and of its own good relations with Britain and Turkey...
...boldness of his policies electrified the country. It was Menderes who took the decision to send Turkish troops to the Korean war. He joined the Balkan Pact and helped fashion the Baghdad Pact. He was among the firmest and most useful of U.S. allies in the Mediterranean...
...John Stephens, the industry's chief spokesman, the differences boiled down to i) a union demand for a 28.3? an hour "package" deal v. a management offer of 14-15?, 2) management's demand for a five-year contract instead of the usual two-year pact...
There were signs, however, that neither side had spoken the final word before this week's strike deadline: while letters from Bethlehem and Republic Steel to their employees emphasized that they stood firm on the five-year pact, the letter from U.S. Steel, the industry leader, failed noticeably to take such an adamant position. Union Leader McDonald indicated that he too would welcome a compromise "if it is a reasonable agreement we can live with." Some seasoned observers even discerned the possible shape of compromise: a three-year pact, a package increase of 20? an hour...