Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disputed Oder-Neisse line as the legal border between Germany and Poland; he thus became the first German politician to publicly cede the former German territories given to Poland by the victorious Allies in 1945. Brandt also differed with the Christian Democrats on the subject of the nuclear nonproliferation pact, asking for a quick and enthusiastic West German endorsement of the treaty. And, for good measure, he attacked the wait-and-see policy of the Christian Democrats toward the rightist National Democrats. Demanding an immediate constitutional ban on the fast-growing extremist party, Brandt cried: "Neo-Nazism is treason...
...more peculiar facets of Communist protocol is the hearty hugging and kissing that accompanies every meeting. As they gathered last week in Sofia to review the seven-nation War saw military pact, the Soviet bloc's top bosses traded hugs and kisses aplenty. Bulgaria's Premier and Party Boss Todor Zhivkov, the host, Russia's Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček and Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu-all greeted each other effusively. As the second high-level Communist meeting in as many weeks wore on, however, the bruises soon outnumbered...
...real extent of Rumania's break with Russia will become evident this week, when the Rumanians have to decide whether or not to attend a meeting of Warsaw Pact countries in Sofia. Even if the Rumanians finally decide to go, Ceausescu's decision to pull out of last week's meeting left the Kremlin in a quandary. Though it now has no serious opposition to its plans for a top-level meeting, it also has less to gain than ever if it occurs. Once intent on isolating Maoism at a summit meeting, Soviet Marxists now stand...
...duels between the inhabitants of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but last week delegations from both met in a cluster of mud huts on their mutual borders. After countless cups of tea, Sheik Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi and Sheik Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum of Dubai signed a pact of federation that will give their joint population of 150,000 a common citizenship, flag, defense force and foreign policy...
...Gulf by 1971. Arab nationalists in South Yemen have vowed to oust the sheiks, and the Egyptians, Saudi Arabians, Iraqis and Iranians are also out to extend their influence in the Gulf. Result: the Trucial sheiks are scurrying around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging the federation to include the five smaller states-Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm al Qaiwain and Ras al Khaimah...