Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pacific. Tempers sharpened as the U.S. passed quiet word of deadlines that were just as quietly ignored by the Russians. The U.S. set out to rally its allies at the SEATO meeting in Bangkok while the Russians met secretly with theirs at a meeting of the War, saw Pact countries. With a loose agreement to negotiate, neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev came out the clear-cut victor. But by delaying their answer, the Russians had once again indicated that they felt that time was. and would continue to be, on their side...
...steamy, sleepy Yaounde, little jungle capital of Cameroun, leaders of a dozen new nations* of former French Africa conferred for two days, then proclaimed themselves a new economic unit, to be known as the Afro-Malagasy Economic Union. The new union will have a common customs pact, a common airline (Air Afrique) and closely linked foreign policies. Committees are already at work on vague plans for a joint diplomatic corps to represent them all abroad (but not at the U.N., where each will have its delegation) and for a coordinated military defense system. They will all continue their loose ties...
...slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word that Khrushchev no longer cared about a summit meeting. And from behind the Iron Curtain drifted reports that Khrushchev was planning to use this week's meeting of the Warsaw Pact (the Communist version of NATO) to get the cooled-off Berlin cauldron boiling again. Big Stick. Khrushchev was obviously engaging Kennedy in a contest of at-the-brink nerves. If he could force Kennedy to back down, the President's authority and prestige, his capacity to lead...
...twelve-mile limit, but British fishermen are permitted a three-year period of grace, during which they may fish-at certain times, at certain locations -within six miles of Iceland's coast. If Iceland's fishermen catch the fish that the British have been getting, the pact eventually should mean an additional $28 million a year for its one-crop economy...
Remembering the Carnegie Hall audition, Herbert von Karajan invited her in 1958 to make her European debut with the Vienna State Opera in Aïda. Since that triumphant evening, Leontyne and Von Karajan have enjoyed a kind of mutual-admiration pact. After Vienna, the road went speedily upward. In 1960 she walked through the stage door of La Scala (she had vowed never to enter as a tourist) and made her debut, again in Aïda, without a single stage rehearsal. "After all," she says, "what's the problem? The Nile can only be upstage." The crowd...