Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warsaw Pact's strength continues to grow. But Washington's new stress on NATO has begun showing such encouraging results that U.S. generals now think that the East's ability to mount a successful blitz is decreasing. NATO Commanding General Alexander Haig told TIME: "You don't do these things overnight. In 1975 we designed a series of flexibility studies to improve our reaction time and enhance the alliance. We came up with about 900 findings and they served as a basis for our program...
...deal is very small by oil standards: 3.6 million bbl. will barely supply a fifth of one day's consumption in the U.S. Still, Peking's willingness to make a pact with Coastal States provides fresh hopes for other American oil companies that would like China's reserves...
...push new spending programs or controversial foreign and defense policies, he is bound to face more flak from the 96th Congress than he did from the disruptive 95th. That applies particularly to the Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, for even Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd has misgivings about the pact...
...this could now change. Last week Pan American's Intercontinental Hotels subsidiary signed a preliminary pact with the Chinese to build six or seven hotels, each with 500 to 1,000 rooms. At least one hotel will be in Peking; others may rise in Shanghai, Canton, and perhaps in the lakeside resort town of Hangchow and the country's ancient capital of Sian...
...Honolulu. A consul in Osaka when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Allison was interned for six months before his repatriation. As deputy to Chief Negotiator John Foster Dulles, Allison helped draft the Japanese peace treaty in 1952 and in 1954 signed a mutual defense pact under which the U.S. bolstered the Japanese economy with $100 million...