Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economics as deputy to Chen Yun, a pragmatic labor organizer from Shanghai. With the Red conquest of the mainland, Li became Minister of Heavy Industry, and went to Moscow in 1950 to help negotiate a 30-year treaty of alliance with Joseph Stalin. In 1953 Li signed the pact under which the Soviet Union agreed to supply money and materiel for China's first Five-Year Plan. His reward was promotion to Chairman of the State Planning Commission...
...Chinese-cherished farming communes were "oldfashioned and reactionary." Not until after December 1958, when the Chinese "modified" the commune system, did the Russians agree to help the Reds build 78 new industrial projects. Today, Red China owes Russia more than $300 million on last year's trade pact alone, and depends on Moscow for half its oil, machine parts and heavy industrial equipment...
...Recently, stories about trucks picking up unaccompanied children on the streets have swept Cuba. The government admitted having placed 700 youngsters in state homes "at the children's request." As the parents' fear grew, many vowed to resist. At the town of Bayamo, 50 mothers signed a pact to kill their children rather than hand them over to Castro...
After the speech, Farmer told the CRIMSON he has heard of "a mutual assistance pact" recently concluded between the American Nazi Party and the Black Muslims, a radical Negro nationalist group...
Mikoyan's public grin soon turned into a private growl. Meeting with Japanese Premier Ikeda, he made plain the real reason for his visit: to rail against U.S. military bases in Japan. "Japan is tied to the United States through a security pact that is in fact an aggressive military pact," snarled the salesman, adding that if the Berlin crisis led to war, Japan, because of its U.S. bases, could expect a Russian attack. However, said Mikoyan, "we are making every effort to prevent war." Then he proposed to Ikeda that Russia and Japan sign...