Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ottawa is also disturbed by Washington's increasingly hard line on the 1965 auto pact between the two countries, which was designed to integrate car manufacturing and let Canadians build as many autos as they buy. It has worked more to Canada's advantage than anyone expected, helping to turn Canada's longstanding trade deficits with the U.S. into a $1 billion surplus last year (though such items as interest payments and dividends to U.S. corporations tipped the overall balance the other way, to a deficit for Canada of $60 million). The pact contains so-called "transitional...
...politics have been repeatedly denounced well before the Cultural Revolution and with particular fervor during the recent tumultous years. Since the announcement of Nixon's visit, the Chinese and Vietnamese have gone out of their way to publicly demonstrate their solidarity. Most recently, they signed a new military assistance pact in late September, further strengthening their ties...
...time, Chaing would remain free to keep intact the myth of his sovereignty over all China or he could perhaps acknowledge Peking sovereignty and accept the post of governor of the island. In return, so goes the theory, Peking will not demand that America officially renounce its mutual defence pact with Chaing. For this Peking would secretly agree not to attack and America would withdraw all military forces...
...Japanese have not forgotten that even though they signed a pact of neutrality with Moscow in 1941, Stalin abrogated it in the closing days of World War II by sending the Red Army into industrialized Manchuria to strip it bare. Nor have the Japanese forgotten that the Russians took advantage of them at war's end by seizing South Sakhalin, the Kurils, the Habomais and the islands of Shikotan off Japan's northern coast. Of course, with U.S.-Japanese relations deteriorating and with Chinese hostility directed against both Moscow and Tokyo, the Soviets may yet decide to play a trump...
...best-laid plans of mine operators, coal users and U.S. Presidents. For the past month the United Mine Workers, torn by dissension and corruption, have been negotiating with the mine owners to formulate a new labor contract and avoid a strike on Thursday, Sept. 30, when the present pact expires. Though a peaceful settlement seems likely, nobody is discounting a walkout that could threaten the nation's critical need for electric power and jar the Administration's new economic policies...