Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater freedom of maneuver. Despite European fears that Brandt was about to engineer another Rapallo, and bitter domestic criticism that the Chancellor was conceding too much to the Soviets, Brandt was succesful in liquidating legal and territorial disputes that had poisoned relations with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries for three decades. In 1972, Bonn took the most difficult diplomatic step of it short career and recognized East Germany. No longer a paralyzed hostage to French, Soviet, and American diplomacy, and reconciled to the division of Germany, Bonn began to defend its interests and objectives with a determination that...
...been almost completely deadlocked since President Gerald Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev met at Vladivostock in November 1974. There also has been little progress in the three-year-old Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) talks in Vienna between the twelve NATO nations and the seven Warsaw Pact states. It has been the dual aim of the NATO negotiators to reduce the number of troops based in Central Europe and create parity between East and West in that region. But even as the MBFR talks have been in session, there has been a buildup of armed forces...
...what some observers view as a sign of progress, Moscow for the first time revealed the pact's force levels in Central Europe: 965,000, v. 977,000 for NATO. This means that parity already exists. NATO experts, however, question the Soviet figures and reckon that the pact really stations some 1,125,000 troops in that region. Until both sides agree on how large the pact's forces are, there may be little progress with MBFR...
...other hand, electrical workers late last month settled quietly with General Electric on a Teamster-like pact-which is regarded by Ford Administration economists as being barely within the limits of inflationary tolerance. One of four unions bargaining with Westinghouse struck last week, but chances are strong that the Westinghouse workers will soon settle for a pact close to GE's. And economists note with relief that dozens of contracts reached so far in the construction industry average first year wage-and-benefit boosts of only...
These are far from romantic queries. Indeed, their impact seems to have reached enemy shores. In its notorious pronouncement of 1972, the Cassandras of the Club of Rome warned that the world was consuming and polluting itself to death. The author of this suicide pact, said the clubmen, was economic growth. But last month the club decided that the vice was versa: growth, managed selectively, could close the gap between wealthy and deprived nations...