Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political pact ceding power to the M.F.A. for three to five years...
...Armed Forces Movement's insistence upon a pact guaranteeing its control of the country's immediate political future came inopportunely in the midst of campaigning for the constituent assembly to be chosen next week. Gonçalves explained that the pact was necessary in order to preserve "the victories we have obtained in various fields, political and economic." Six of the country's twelve legal political parties ratified the plan, but some did so simply to prevent the M.F.A. from becoming a "prisoner of the Communist Party." That may happen anyway. Under the present terms...
...events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best work is his own Personal History (1935), a minor classic on his first years as a swashbuckling, trench-coated correspondent...
Hooray for the Van Dusens' decision to carry out their suicide pact [March 10]. We determine whether another's life should be conceived, why should we not decide upon the termination of our own? Is it really preferable to store away a fund during one's vital years in order to support senility? At the very least, the privilege of self-inflicted death should be easily available to those who choose...
Many of the Van Dusens' friends, a Who's Who of liberal Protestantism, had discussed the possibility of suicide with them. Some opposed it, others did nothing to discourage it. The three Van Dusen sons are known to differ on the suicide pact, but colleagues were sympathetic last week. "I think they did the right thing," said Ethicist John C. Bennett, Van Dusen's successor at Union...