Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...U.M.W.'s unusual contract permits the "memorial" shutdown; in fact, it allows ten days for memorial closedowns during the life of the pact. Thus Miller can and probably will call another five-day "memorial" walkout in the middle of bargaining, and the nation could lose considerable coal output, even without an official strike. The coal industry's bargaining arm, the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, tried to talk the U.M.W. out of the shutdown, contending that it will cost miners and other employees $25 million in wages and $7 million in royalty payments to the union's welfare...
...between two of its members, Greece and Turkey. But the alliance received a shock with Greece's withdrawal last week of its military forces from NATO'S integrated command. Greece's departure left a hole in NATO's southeast defenses against the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact...
Almost immediately, many of the 240 Greek liaison officers stationed at NATO installations throughout Europe packed their bags and started home. Greece's 35,000-man Third Army pulled back from its NATO-assigned position at Greece's Macedonian frontier with Bulgaria (a Warsaw Pact member) and headed eastward to Thrace and the Turkish border...
...will they participate in joint maneuvers and training exercises. It is even possible that Greece will withdraw from the alliance's computer-operated, early-warning radar system, which runs from the Arctic Circle in Norway to Asia Minor. This would leave part of the periphery of the Warsaw Pact unmonitored by ground radar...
...stability, Russia -despite détente-might dare to intervene in the turmoil in Yugoslavia that is expected to follow the death of the aging Josip Broz Tito. For the past three years NATO units (including Greeks and Turks) have held exercises in northern Greece to practice intercepting Warsaw Pact forces if they move through Bulgaria on their way to invade Yugoslavia. Now, with Athens out of NATO, such a strategy becomes much more difficult and removes at least one deterrent, however minor in the scale of Soviet strategic considerations, to a Russian attack on Yugoslavia...