Word: pact
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...sign that Europe has not abandoned Israel, despite its 70% dependence on oil from Arab lands and many indications that it was caving in (in 1973, for example, the Common Market drafted a strongly pro-Arab resolution embracing Cairo's arguments in cease-fire negotiations). Economically, the pact should help Israeli exports of oranges, chemicals and electronic products. As of July 1, Common Market tariffs on those and other Israeli goods will be lowered 40% to 80%; by mid-1977, there will be no tariffs on Israeli industrial exports...
...that, tariffs will be gradually reduced, but some duties may last until 1989, by which time the Israeli economy will supposedly be able to withstand the full rigors of international competition-a sort of commercial bar mitzvah. Israel has been allowed favorable treatment in the early stages of the pact because it now imports far more from the EEC than it exports. In 1974 it bought $2 billion worth of Common Market goods, such as automobiles and heavy machinery, nearly three times as much as it sold...
Although everybody was ready to weep crocodile tears when half a million troops from the Warsaw Pact armies marched in, in August 1968, to crush Czech hopes for a socialism reconciled with democracy, the pity was short-lived. For the Western establishment, detente and attractive trade prospects have superceded the initial expressions of humanitarian sympathy mixed with "red-scare" rhetoric. To people on the left, especially pro-communist intellectuals in Europe, the more blatantly violent repression under right wing dictatorships, has made them forget the much "duller" horrors of the Czech "normalization," and close ranks with the socialist camp...
...renegotiate its huge Philippine air and naval bases, even though the lease runs until 1991. Marcos has sarcastically asked "whether commitments by U.S. Presidents are binding" or are merely "forms of psychological reassurances." That was a reference to the U.S.-Philippine mutual defense treaty of 1951. Although the pact was ratified by Congress, the interpretation that it requires the U.S. to "instantly repel" an attack on the Philippines is based solely on declarations by U.S. Presidents. The Philippines are actually in little danger of invasion, but Marcos is worried about the threat posed by indigenous Communist guerrillas to his regime...
...tinnk that the pact corresponds with our own ideas in the Socialist Party to effect a change in the country, but with prudence, paying attention to our geographical situation and respecting freedom and pluralism. Foreign observers are deeply concerned about the continuing presence of the military. As I myself have a civilian background,I can understand that. Don't forget that in Portugal we emerged from a fascist regime that lasted half a century, and we have just put an end to colonial wars that lasted 14 years. We cannot pass from that situation to a pure democratic system...