Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...owners promised to present their new bargaining offer on Monday rather than Thursday; 2) Usery guaranteed that the offer would be substantial. By Thursday afternoon the Giants, Jets, Redskins and Lions had returned to camp. That evening, after personal assurances from Usery, the Patriots reluctantly voted to accept the pact...
...anything else, this was the year of the Anniversary in Eastern Europe. The celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the defeat of Nazism--always accompanied by fervent expressions of undying gratitude to the Soviet liberators--dominated city squares, billboards and television screens in every remote part of every Warsaw Pact country. On Czechoslovakia, the celebration had a distinctly hollow ring, the presence of Soviet troops in the country since 1968 kind of putting a damper on things. But in Poland and Romania as well, a lot of people I spoke with this summer seemed to find the "Eternal Brotherhood With...
...southern Angola, traditionally a base for the moderate UNITA, perhaps the most popular but also the weakest militarily of the independence groups. The M.P.L.A.'S success in the south has prompted speculation that it may be considering a merger with UNITA. The Lisbon government would probably welcome a pact between the two. It would allow Portugal to hand over control of Angola on Nov. 11-the scheduled date for independence-to groups that theoretically represent two-thirds of the country's black population...
...Middle East. The most widely debated proviso of the agreement is an article stipulating that the U.S. will send up to 200 civilian electronics experts to maintain surveillance stations in Sinai that will monitor troop and aircraft movements and report truce violations. Israel refused to ratify the pact without U.S. surveillance. Although not explicitly part of the deal, $2.3 billion in military aid for Israel in fiscal '76, as well as $700 million for Egypt, will now be presented for congressional approval by the Ford Administration. The U.S. will also guarantee oil for Israel to replace supplies previously provided...
...Soviet Ambassador to London from 1932 to 1943; in Moscow. A dapper, moonfaced charmer, Anglophile Maisky interpreted Stalin's often twisting policies to the British through the 1930s, forging friendly relations but no alliances with Lord Halifax and Winston Churchill. Under a cloud after the Nazi-Soviet pact and Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland, he rebounded to become one of London's social lions when Hitler attacked Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive and was once serenaded with...