Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft treaty, it was clear that the long and bitter relationship was yielding to a more conciliatory mood-or, as the Japanese put it, moodo. Though Japan's Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, made it very clear that Japan and South Korea were not entering into an anti-Communist pact, both countries unquestionably had been pushed together by Red China's explosion of a nuclear device...
...cordiality toward the Communist Chinese brought Ayub another diplomatic gain last week, at the expense of India, whose military threat to Pakistan, he insisted, "is increasing day by day." In Karachi, Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi signed a pact delineating a 300-mile Himalayan border between China and Pakistan, thus implying Peking recognition of Pakistan's suzerainty (disputed by India) over the part of Kashmir it actually controls...
Cheer Leader. The opposition hammered away at Madame's links with Red China. Senanayake charged that the recently signed maritime pact with Peking would allow Red China to use the port of Trincomalee, thus making Ceylon a base for the Communist struggle to control India. Anti-Chinese feelings were so strong that a crowd mistakenly mauled two Japanese newsmen and stole their watches and cameras...
...Russians want to get paid for their use. "The Soviets have come to realize that they may get more profit from joining than from staying out," says Dr. Georg Bodenhausen, head of the Geneva-based International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, which administers the Paris pact...
...pact is hard to enforce if anyone really wants to circumvent it; Boden-hausen's organization has no legal weapons against transgressors, simply passes along complaints to governments involved. Any member of the pact can unilaterally exempt specific products from patent protection; Italy has done so with Pharmaceuticals, thus enabling Italian firms to copy the world's new drugs as fast as they are invented. Several big nations, such as India, Pakistan, Argentina and Chile, remain outside the system, some of them figuring that they invent too little to profit from it. Nor does the pact protect artistic...