Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hardly had Wilson finished annealing to the Germans for more financial support for the 53,000-man British Army of the Rhine than British Defense Secretary Denis Healey released a White Paper calling for large-scale cutbacks in both NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. It was thus no surprise that at week's end Bonn indicated that it will not help pay for the upkeep of the Rhine army-a decision that almost inevitably will bring about a major British pullback...
Though West Germany accepts the idea of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Brandt said last week, it will not sign any pact that inhibits its development of a peaceful atomic technology. And while the new government will honor ex-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's agreement to contribute to the upkeep of U.S. troops ($675 million a year), it wants to cut that sum sharply after the agreement expires in June. Though Bonn privately expects the withdrawal of perhaps three American divisions this year, Brandt, as Foreign Minister of an energetic new regime, was not about to concede anything before...
...always been bitterly quarrelsome. During more than 20 years in power, their Communist leaders have tried to make much of so cialist unity, but the effort created only a patina beneath which the old animosities still raged. Last week the patina visibly cracked. When the representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries met, they argued vociferously and unproductively. The fiasco proved with new force what has been clear for a long time: the Warsaw Pact, somewhat like its NATO equivalent, is now an artifact rather than a fact...
...which was spared the 43-day machinists' strike, soared on full seats and heavy military charters. The strike did cost it a $12 million payment to rival TWA and the other four affected lines under a mutual aid pact, but profits nevertheless increased 61% to $84 million. Flying into 1967, Pan Am got a big boost last month when it finally won permission as the only nondomestic carrier to fly its international passengers across...
...hatred" of his parents, and guilty for his love of his brother Richard, a wild, leching lad who committed suicide at 22. Chambers' whole life, to hear Zeligs tell it, became a search for a mystical brother whom he could force to re-enact a ritual death pact. The consummation of that search was the symbolic destruction of his "mystical brother," Alger Hiss...