Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian denominations believe that suicide violates God's commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." Last week, however, the New York Times revealed that one of the world's pre-eminent Presbyterians, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, 77, and his wife Elizabeth, 80, had carried out a suicide pact in January. The retired president of New York's Union Theological Seminary and Mrs. Van Dusen took overdoses of sleeping pills in their Princeton, N.J., home. She died quickly, but he vomited up the pills, was found and taken to a hospital, where he died last month...
...cane, but his speech was largely incomprehensible-a severe frustration for a man who had had great verbal skill. Although his wife had undergone two hip operations and suffered from arthritis, she was able to take a trip to Britain a month before her death. The Van Dusen pact, in other words, was not made under the extreme conditions of terminal illness that make many people sympathetic to euthanasia (which means literally "good death"). Rather, their letter stated, "we are both increasingly weak and unwell, and who would want to die in a nursing home...
...series, assorted MIG fighter-bombers and the deadly accurate SAM antiaircraft missiles. In addition, the Kremlin for decades has shipped massive quantities of war materiel to the Warsaw Pact states and to the armies of North Korea and North Viet Nam. Dozens of other Third World countries admire Soviet weapons: MIGS, AK-47 automatic rifles (widely regarded as the world's best combat rifle) and armored cars are highly prized...
...armaments-manufacturing industries expands. The world's arms supply will swell even more, as thousands of tanks and aircraft become surplus when NATO and the Warsaw Pact introduce a new generation of weapons for their forces. Even South Viet Nam has reportedly begun to dispose of weapons that were left behind by the American troops...
...guard their export figures, but Pentagon experts believe that China supplies some weapons (such as MIG-21 fighter-bombers, with instrument panels and operating manuals in Chinese) to North Viet Nam, North Korea, Pakistan and a few revolutionary movements in Africa. Poland is a major outlet for the Warsaw Pact's surplus tanks. Czechoslovakia, whose famed Bren gun as well as the Skoda Works' howitzers made the country second only to Britain as a weapons merchant in the 1930s, has dropped from the big leagues. It sells some jet trainers to other Communist states and Syria, and mortars to Cuba...