Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...othe critical supplies throughout the East and Midwest. Though truck traffic began to pick up slowly at week's end, bands of angry militants, dissatisfied with the agreement continued their harassment in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. Original strike leaders were pushing for ratification of the pact, but it would take days to get a precise reading of truckers' view...
...pact was worked out in meetings in Washington between trucker representatives and W.J. Usery Jr., director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Milton Shapp had organized the meetings and acted as mediator. Still, the agreement was not good enough for many drivers, who are demanding that the Government roll back fuel prices at the pump-a difficult, if not impossible task, because of rising world oil prices...
From the Baltic to the Bohemian Forest, some 750,000 NATO troops (190,000 of them supplied by the U.S. forces in West Germany) face approximately 850,000 troops from the Warsaw Pact nations, though not all are of top quality. The Communists hold an even greater superiority in tactical aircraft (4,300 v. 1,890) and in tanks (about 19,000 v. 6,500). Despite the antitank missiles the Arabs and Israelis used so effectively against each other last year, military planners still consider the tank the key weapon in ground combat. The Soviets have both a new medium...
...Europe, but Schlesinger agrees with the Administration position that such a move would be disastrous without equivalent pullbacks by Russia. He views NATO as "the spine and adhesive" that holds off Soviet political pressure and the threat of "Fin-landization" of Europe. For three months, the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries have been conducting mutual force reductions talks in Vienna, and the Administration regards keeping American sol diers in Europe as a bargaining chip that will force Soviet concessions. Says Schlesinger: "It would be foolhardy indeed not to give this pro cess a chance to work itself...
...anomaly in the town. But they become more and more appealing to the people. The human beings yearn to become rhinoceroses. The comfort of conformity becomes more attractive than the responsibilities of individualism. So one by one, the people of the town succumb to the lure of the mindless pact. Even Stanley's saccharine girl friend Daisy (Karen Black) and his best friend John (Zero Mostel) go over to the side of the rhinos. Only Stanley resists. He becomes the anomaly...