Word: pact
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Although post-Franco Spain is eager for closer relations with Western Europe, joining NATO is not an immediate prospect. Membership, in any case, will not affect a Washington-Madrid defense cooperation pact, which runs until 1981. Washington already has a warm relationship with Suarez. There was also admiration for Spain's progress in Britain last week. "The secret of Juan Carlos' success," reflected one Spain watcher, "was his rejection of the old men of the civil war and the middle-aged leaders of the Opus Dei [the secretive Catholic lay organization] in favor of his own generation of Spaniards...
...contract settlement, while not exactly what the workers had originally demanded, nonetheless represents a marked improvement over the previous pact, and a victory for workers who last year took the University to task for such abuses as failing to list available kitchen jobs and allegedly discriminating against minority workers...
Among the most significant benefits included under the new pact is a provision requiring management to post all available job openings well in advance and a clause requiring the presence of a union representative at all workers' disciplinary hearings...
...renewed warfare on the Korean peninsula or the need to support the Republic of Korea in the event of an attack." In Western Europe, there is growing concern that NATO'S conventional forces are not capable of slowing and then repelling a nonnuclear invasion by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact nations. In Brussels this week, Brown is expected to emphasize, as Carter did last week, that NATO must improve its combat readiness and upgrade the training and equipment of its forces. "The main message I'll take to that meeting," the Secretary remarked, "will be that with the advent...
...wake of the Seitz ruling, the roles have been reversed. Upon termination of his contract, a player can renegotiate for a new pact or decide to become a free agent, potentially available to every franchise. This past year, 26 major league players became free agents, including such celebrities as Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, and Bobby Grich. During the frenzied bidding war most major newspapers ran front page stories on the latest developments, following the bargaining sessions as closely as the Paris Peace Talks. Daily, the media announced the most lucrative contract offer ever made in the sport, only...