Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the terms of the proposal, agreed upon during the final negotiating session last week, the workers will get a 25-cent per hour pay increase retroactive to June 22, and a total 50-cent per hour boost over the two-year life of the pact...
According to Balsam, the union rank and file met last Tuesday to discuss the final Harvard proposal, and will reconvene on September 29 to hold a ratification vote on the pact...
...Ford had refused to invite to the White House; criticism of pursuing détente?a word that Ford had banned ?without insisting on concurrent Soviet concessions; an attack on "secret agreements, hidden from our people"; and a reference to "Helsinki," where Ford had agreed to the 35-nation pact ratifying the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe...
...talks beginning next month in London, the British aim to rewrite the so-called Bermuda agreement. That pact, originally signed in 1946, sets the ground rules for commercial air traffic between the U.S. and Britain and is also the model for bilateral air agreements that the U.S. has with more than 60 other countries. The British have several demands, including rights to add new U.S. cities, notably Atlanta and Houston, to the ones that British Airways now serves -New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami. Most important, the British want to be given, by bureaucratic fiat...
...politically, militarily, and psychologically to accept such a difficult responsibility. How can you expect us to assume a greater role in European affairs when we cannot even guarantee our own security? The Soviets view the rise of our political and economic influence with great suspicion. With 19,000 Warsaw Pact tanks stationed on our borders we cannot afford to become anything that would resemble the Germany of old. The Soviets would never tolerate it. Moreover, would Western Europe accept German leadership? Three decades after WW II the German Federal Republic continues to bear the stigma of the Third Reich...