Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nasser's air defenses in violation of the agreement, knowing full well that U.S. and Israeli intelligence detect every move. "This is deliberate?it is not clandestine," observes one Soviet expert in the U.S. Kremlin strategy raises all the old doubts about Moscow's intentions of abiding by any pact it enters...
...Soviet behavior elsewhere. The U.S.S.R., after all, had flatly lied to President John Kennedy about its strategic missiles in Cuba in 1962, claiming that there were none and touching off a superpower confrontation. Yet a year later, the two nations were able to agree on a limited nuclear testing pact that apparently has not been violated...
...strategic arms, which accounts for its continued interest in SALT. It is genuinely interested in some accommodation with Western Europe so that it will be free to cope with the Chinese menace on its Far Eastern borders, which at least partly explained Moscow's readiness to sign a nonaggression pact with West Germany. In the Middle East, on the other hand, it is relatively cheap to keep things tense as long as a major conflict with the U.S. can be avoided. As Columbia University Sovietologist Severyn Bialer says, Moscow knows that "a state of crisis is the only guarantee...
Becoming a college president today is like signing on to administer the Munich pact in 1939. With its financial base (government and foundation grants) crumbling, Harvard is committed already to several new and costly projects (The Afro-American Research Institute, merger with Radcliffe, Gund Hall, and the new science center). The Faculty is divided and restless. The students, united and angry...
...Pakistani leaders had commissioned the Harvard group to shape up a five-year development plan and recruit an entire native planning staff; but the main impact of the team during this period was to facilitate the entrance of American aid into the country. This aid, part of a pact with the Pakistanis which John Foster Dulles had conceived in 1953 as an anti-Russian coalition, had the effect of strengthening the military and hastening the 1958 coup d'etat by Ayub Khan...