Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hundreds of Czechs, Hungarians, Poles and Bulgarians are also aiding Ethiopia's forces. Technicians from Prague and Budapest have supervised the arrival of large quantities of weapons, such as AK-47 automatic rifles and machine guns, made by Warsaw Pact countries. Transporting arms and men from Eastern Europe to Ethiopia formerly presented only minor problems, since they were flown from their staging area in Libya over an unsuspecting Sudan. Until they were expelled in May, Russian advisers in Khartoum had tampered with the Sudanese radar network to create a blind spot in its coverage,'in effect creating...
...swing vote. Vellucci's vote for Danehy appears to be a petulant, isolated one, spiting the progressive coalition which elected him mayor in 1975 and supported him in the most recent election. But if his support for Danehy results in Vellucci sliding into the conservative camp, this somewhat Faustian pact will have severe repercussions...
West Germany. Bonn's Bundesnachrichtendienst is superb on East Germany and on analyzing other Warsaw Pact countries. Reputation tarnished by penetration of Soviet and East German spies into government ministries...
Unfortunately, any eventual pact could easily be scuttled if the leftists, who bitterly oppose dismantling tariff walls, win the forthcoming French elections. Furthermore, the Congress, which faces fall elections, could also refuse to ratify any agreement. Strauss does have the wholehearted support of President Carter, but this Congress has shown itself to be well aware that protecting home industries is an easy way to win votes. Indeed, protectionism has developed global momentum: GATT studies suggest that trade-restricting moves by various countries cost the world $30 billion to $50 billion in potential international commerce over the past three years. Noting...
...Hitler, the manifesto charged that the "barbaric" Soviet system had since 1945 claimed "more victims in Eastern Europe than Hitler's Nazism and World War II." The manifesto called for the restoration of basic freedoms and the reunification of Germany, after the East has withdrawn from the Warsaw Pact and the West from NATO...