Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L. President George Meany and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther got 65 A.F.L. and 29 C.I.O. unions to sign a no-raiding agreement that calls for arbitration of jurisdictional disputes. Although Reuther and Meany grinned for the cameras and predicted that the A.F.L. and C.I.O. would join forces before the pact expires (December 1955), the peace pact was almost worthless. Reason: non-signers included Dave Beck, whose powerful A.F.L. Teamsters openly lay claim to 50,000 men in rival unions, and Dave McDonald, president of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers, who has his eye on A.F.L. aluminum and shipping workers...
...agreed to the final details of a new Balkan entente, the first in 20 years. Without any nudging from the West, without any inducements of cash or arms, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey voluntarily allied themselves against Soviet imperialism. (If anything, Britain and the U.S. tried to stall the pending pact, lest it irritate Italy, which is still at odds with Tito over Trieste.) The agreement will mobilize a combined army of 800,000 tough fighters to repel any attack from or through the Communist countries of Bulgaria and Albania.* It will also set up a consultative assembly, representing the three...
...pact, which will be signed formally in Belgrade next month, joins together a republic, a monarchy and a Communist dictatorship. Little more than a century ago, the Turks were murdering their rebellious Slav subjects; 32 years ago, Greeks and Turks battled for Asia Minor; seven years ago, the Yugoslavs harbored and outfitted the Communist assault on Greece. Last week geography and common peril triumphed over ancient grudges...
...said. "Guatemala does not menace anyone, especially our sister republics. Our army will never serve as an instrument of aggression." The Guatemalans pulled back troops from the Honduran border and offered the astonished Hondurans, who had just recalled their ambassador, a mutual-assistance and nonaggression pact...
...system for round-robin play among the teams of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton was established as part of a pact involving the eight schools, and set up earlier this year...