Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Stinker. In its final hours, the debate produced sparks. The day before the ratification vote, dissenting Senators sought to tie a spate of qualifications to the pact-any one of which could have put the whammy on the whole works. "If reservations are attached to the treaty," New York Republican Jacob Javits had warned, "it will mar for the world and all the nations which are signing the treaty the statesmanship which dedicated it in the first place...
...addition to the U.S., Britain and Russia, 100 other nations out of the 127 eligible to sign the pact have done so. Outstanding holdouts: France, Red China, North Korea, North Viet Nam, Albania, Cuba...
Thus the U.S. Senate became the first parliamentary body of the three original signatories* to ratify the pact. Next day, having obviously waited for the Senate to act, two dozen members of the 3 3-member Presidium of the Su preme Soviet met and speedily followed suit. Britain will put the treaty before Commons when it convenes late this month, and if no objections are raised within 21 days (none are expected), the treaty automatically is ratified...
...than 650 miles from South Viet Nam, and parts of Malaya are less than 300. The United States hopes Malaysia will form a barrier against the Red Chinese. It certainly will not stand by and see Malaysia taken by Indonesia, a country which has not only signed an amity pact with Peking, but has also recognized Mao's claim to Taiwan...
Europe's Common Market is prospering so much that nearly everybody wants in. Spain, Sweden and Austria are knocking at the club's door. Israel and Iran are negotiating a trade pact with Europe's Six. In Africa, 18 former French, Belgian and Italian colonies recently signed an export-boosting treaty with the Market. Last week, in the first break away from the solid ranks of the British Commonwealth nations, Nigeria asked the Six to consider some kind of association with it. Many Common Marketeers favor the bid from black Africa's biggest nation (pop. some...