Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford left undefined what appropriate action he meant. In one sense, he appeared to be simply reaffirming the U.S. commitment to the hemisphere's senior defense treaty, the Rio Pact. But it also appears that Ford was declaring what Secretary of State Kissinger had been telling Latin American leaders privately last month on his tour of the Latin nations: that the U.S., with the support of key Latin nations, would move against Cuban military intervention anywhere in the hemisphere. In any event, all putative Administration notions of further normalizing relations with Cuba are now in the deepfreeze...
...from what he would like: a cold-blooded, amoral man, lacking the most basic concepts of right and wrong, who even now cannot grasp the horror he did so much to perpetrate. Historian Eugene Davidson was wrong when he wrote of Speer, "whatever he lost when he made his pact with Adolf Hitler, it was not his soul." Albert Speer did lose his soul. Worse yet, he never missed...
...would vote for Wallace even if he were dead because of what he represented to the spreading rot of the North. Last week Wallace said that he would consider a black man for vice president: It doesn't matter. It is as if there has been a secret pact in the Wallace campaign between the candidate and his electorate. No matter what he says to the national media about winning scads of black votes in Alabama or accepting the law of the land, the implied message is in Wallace's wink--there is nothing to fear from the fighting judge...
...charges might be brought unfairly against Americans. Key opponents to the convention in Washington were the A.B.A. and North Carolina Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. With Ervin retired and the A.B.A. having reversed course, supporters of the convention now hope the Senate will at last ratify the anti-genocide pact...
...most formidable walls are right within the White House because a fundamental change has taken place there since Kissinger visited Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow last month to negotiate a SALT pact. Politics have been injected into Gerald Ford's foreign policy. For the first time, his political advisers, notably Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have matched if not surpassed the Secretary of State in their influence on presidential decisions about SALT...