Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incendiary bombing that in one day destroyed the town of Guernica, among many others. The Soviet Union backed the Popular Front government, as did Communists everywhere. But the vastly greater weight of German and Italian arms, coupled with the decision by the Russians and Germans to seek a nonaggression pact, which dried up Soviet support for the Republicans, eventually gave the victory to Franco's forces...
...most oppressed people in Western Europe. So abhorrent to Western democracies was Franco's regime that both the United Nations in 1945 and the Common Market later refused to let Spain join. A desire by the U.S. for air and submarine bases led to a military pact in 1953 that boosted Spain's standing in the international community. It did little, however, to reform Franco's cruel and backward rule...
...patrolmen in the union have been working without a contract since June 30, when a two-year pact expired. A state mediator was asked to assist in the negotiations in the late summer, after months of talks resulted in a stalemate...
...fatal flaw in U.S. government foreign policy since WW II has been its unilateral attempt to solve these problems. Where many are concerned many should and must have a voice. Six Arab states and the Soviet Union have already condemned the Kissinger-Ford peace pact. Many others are almost certain to do likewise...
...urge as strongly as I can that Congress withhold approval of this inherently inadequate peace-pact, and instead ask the United Nations to consider the Middle East problem, along with other planetary danger spots. The creation of a planetary government, with power limited to disputes between and among states, but with powers adequate to adjudicate these disputes, is, in my opinion, the sine qua non of human survival in the thermo-nuclear...