Word: pact
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...Democrática (A.D.), explained that "traditionally in Venezuelan politics the winners on reaching power enjoyed all rights and advantages, while the vanquished were left with only that curious form of political privilege known in Latin America as the 'right to conspire.' We signed a pact by which the victors promised to respect the right of the vanquished to take part in political life, and the vanquished promised to defend the right of the elected to govern...
Sitting beside Betancourt, the heads of the other coalition parties, Jóvito Villalba of the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and Rafael Caldera of the Social Christian COPEI, reaffirmed the pact with such emphasis that they unconsciously revealed the strains within it. Most of the strains come from the division among the parties of Cabinet posts, state governorships and autonomous state institutes, e.g., social security. Villalba's U.R.D., for example, complained loudly that the A.D. had taken the lion's share and that the U.R.D. deserved the governorship of the federal district, including Caracas, because in the election...
Head coaches covered by the novel pact are Jordan Olivar, football; Murray Murdock, hockey; Jim Rathschmidt, crew; Ethan Allen, baseball; Phil Morriarty, swimming; Bob Giegengack and Frank Ryan, track; John Skillman, tennis; Bill Harkness, lacrosse and Joe Vancisin, basketball...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--The Antarctic Pact--a pledge to keep the great frozen continent at peace--was signed today by 12 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty bans war bases, nuclear explosions and missile sites forever from a vast south polar region covering five million square miles...
...pact's most significant aspects, U.S. officials said, is its provision for a revolutionary system of international inspection in Antarctica. It gives each of the 12 nations the right, on mere advance notice, to check the other's installations, equipment, ships and planes in the Antarctica at any time...