Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Byrd will take the lead in trying to forge a compromise on the Panama Canal treaty. Last week, in a move that significantly improved the treaty's chances, he vigorously supported it for the first time. He said that because of widespread opposition to the pact, Senators who vote for it would get "no political credit, no political mileage." But he described the treaty as "the best means of assuring continued access to the use of the canal." Byrd and Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker will insist that reservations be attached to the treaty, clarifying and firming up U.S. rights...
...applause. Yet it was largely because of the prodding of Richard Perle, 36, an aide for eight years to Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, that the Senate has adopted a key "qualification" to the 1972 U.S.-So-viet SALT agreement, demanding that there be strategic arms parity in any future pact. Jackson has staked out defense matters as a main interest, and Perle's hawkish skepticism about arms control and his mastery of intricate weaponry arguments have given him as much influence as many Administration officials in the arms infighting...
Pinochet derided the U.N. resolution as a "wicked pact," and claimed that Chile was a "victim of a base alliance of the great powers." He announced that Chileans would be asked to mark ballots yes or no in response to the following statement: "In the face of the international aggression unleashed against the government of our country. I support President Pinochet in his defense of the dignity of Chile, and reaffirm the legitimacy of the government of the Republic to lead sovereignly the process of institutionalization of the country...
Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic Cabinet had suddenly stalled. Its parliamentary pact with other parties was in disarray. An all-out general strike, threatened by the unions, held the possibility of toppling the government altogether. And a swelling chorus of leftist parties, led by the Communists, was demanding the formation of an all-party "emergency government." As the Italian Socialist Party newspaper Avanti! warned: "The countdown against Andreotti has begun. " From Rome last week TIME Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante cabled this report on the latest stage in Italy's ongoing crisis...
...stalemate of trench warfare; 2) the inconclusive-Wallace Warfield Simpson separated Edward VIII from his crown, but the event belonged more to the history of celebrity than to that of power; 3) magnificent failure-Imre Nagy, for example, in 1956 tried to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact and then discovered the brutal insistence of things in the Soviet tanks that arrived to iron out his impulse; 4) the satanic leap-what inspiration instructed Hitler that he might conquer Europe and destroy 6 million Jews...