Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began work last February on an answer to the Soviet challenge. The result is a thick document called A.D. 70 (for Alliance Defense, 1970). It concluded that NATO possesses "adequate nuclear forces," but that its conventional military strength "is less satisfactory"-quite an understatement in view of the Warsaw Pact's 2-to-l edge in troop strength. The report recommended and the members unanimously approved: > Concrete hangars for NATO aircraft. Having watched the destruction of Egypt's air force by Israel during the Six-Day War, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact forces are anxious to cover...
...Invisible Finns. The Soviet ex-Premier's account begins with the event that set the stage for Russia's entry into the war-the nonaggression treaty between Stalin and Hitler in 1939. Khrushchev learned of the pact when he was summoned to Stalin's dacha after a day of hunting with other members of the Soviet hierarchy. "While the trophies of our hunt were being prepared for the table," recalls Khrushchev, "Stalin told us that [Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von] Ribbentrop had brought with him a draft of a friendship and nonaggression treaty and that...
Although the pact is generally regarded as one of the most cynical agreements in history, Stalin's decision met the approval of a majority of party members as "tactically wise," says Khrushchev. However, "we couldn't even discuss the treaty at party meetings. It was very hard for us-as Communists, as antifascists-to accept the idea of joining forces with Germany...
Emotional Barrier. Behind the pact lay 1,000 years of deep mutual hatred between Germans and Poles. With the Treaty of Warsaw, Brandt thus cleared the greatest emotional barrier in the East bloc to his Ostpolitik, whose aim is to create a more relaxed atmosphere between West Germany and its Communist neighbors...
Early Retirement. The pact provides a first-year wage increase of just over 13%, or 50? an hour, for a typical assembler now earning $3.80. The raise is a compromise; the union had wanted 61.5? per hour and the company, whose last pre-strike offer was 38?, went more than halfway in meeting the union demand. The union settled for considerably lower guaranteed raises in the second and third years: 3% annually, or an average of 14? per hour. The figure is consistent with U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock's contention that future wage raises can be kept in line...