Word: pact
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...more than pomp and ceremony. Pressure has been building in the budget-conscious Senate for further reductions in the present 310,000-man level of U.S. troops in Europe. Brandt was concerned that premature troop cuts might undermine his efforts to negotiate a mutual force reduction with the Warsaw Pact nations. Speaking before the National Press Club, he argued that the efficiency of the NATO alliance depended upon a continued U.S. military presence on the European Continent. Said Brandt, in his excellent, lightly accented English: "There is no security for Europe without the United States...
Ostpolitik, or Eastern policy, and later gave newsmen a concise explanation of the rationale behind his attempts to improve relations with Eastern Europe. "Just as NATO is a reality, as West Berlin with its relationships with the Federal Republic is a reality," said Brandt, "so is the Warsaw Pact, so are the two states in Germany, so are the frontiers of Poland. We have to start from these realities if we want to improve relations with the Soviet Union, seek reconciliation with the Polish people, and mitigate the distressing division of our country." Nixon and Brandt also discussed Britain...
...pointing to the support he personally commands in the Soviet army. Kremlinologists were also struck by the fact that Brezhnev, on his return to Moscow from a three-day trip to Budapest last week, was met at the railway station by Grechko, Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, Commander of the Warsaw Pact forces, and Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov. Such a turnout, which would ordinarily pass unobserved, seemed to indicate the source of Brezhnev's present strength...
Protecting diplomats completely is impossible, but host countries are boosting guards and surveillance. In Washington, the White House police force is expanding from 250 to 850 to keep watch over Embassy Row as well as the White House. Argentina has proposed a hemispheric pact that would deny political asylum to any prisoners released under pressure from kidnapers. Mexico, however, insists that it will continue granting asylum to released prisoners on the grounds that this at least saves the lives of hostages...
...week's end enough air traffic controllers were still staying out "sick" to ground many U.S. airline flights and cause long delays on others. Most teamsters, on the other hand, were returning to work after brief strikes in 37 cities helped to win a tentative national agreement. Their pact showed how costly it will be to meet labor's demands this year: during the next 39 months, teamsters' wages are scheduled to rise $1.10 an hour, or about 27%, for 450,000 union members. At week's end Chicago teamsters were holding out for a fatter...