Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Limited Risk. In his quiet and effective presentation of the case for the treaty in his television address to the nation, John F. Kennedy made efforts to reply in advance to arguments that may be raised when the pact comes before the U.S. Senate for ratification. In fact, there seems little danger that the treaty will be rejected, or will even have a narrow escape. Only a few Senators-Arizona's Barry Goldwater among them-are clearly opposed to it. Some other Senators seem wary, ineluding Georgia's Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee and leader...
...President Kennedy stressed the treaty's safeguards against violations by the Soviet. Against the limited risk of violations, he said, the agreement creates wide new possibilities to reduce the world's fear of fallout, "to reduce tension, to slow down the perilous nuclear arms race." Furthermore, the pact might lead to far-reaching future agreements in such sectors as controls against surprise attack, a halt to the spread of nuclear weapons, and possibly, even a broad disarmament pact...
Last week racial peace came to Cambridge, at least temporarily. At the urging of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, white and Negro leaders sat down together at the Justice Department in Washington and, in eight hours of negotiation, worked out a peace pact. Under that pact, the first four grades of Cambridge schools will be desegregated by September, and applications to any grade in any public school will be "processed without regard to race, creed or color." Also, city officials will apply to the Federal Housing Administration for help in obtaining low-rent housing "that will materially benefit the Negro...
Along with the agreement, the U.S., Britain and Russia issued a brief communique that contained a Kremlin concession of sorts. The Russians had sought a nonaggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact powers that would, in effect, concede legality to the regime of East German Puppet Walter Ulbricht. Moscow had hinted that without simultaneous agreement on a nonaggression pact, it would not sign a test ban. But the Soviets settled for a promise by the U.S. and Britain to take up the issue with their NATO allies in an effort to find an acceptable formula. The communique also reported...
...MARCH 1959-Britain and the U.S. drop their insistence that a test ban must be part of complete disarmament pact...