Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be happy with the paradox of mutual assured destruction. It is in effect a mutual suicide pact signed by the two nuclear superpowers...
...dramatic demonstration of his achievement, he had only to make one final flight between Jerusalem and Aswan to get the signatures of both Meir and Sadat on a document spelling out the most important issues on which both sides agreed. Though its contents were not made public, the pact signed by the two heads of government specified, among other things, the numbers and types of weapons each side would be allowed to keep in the Sinai...
...guaranteed wage boost of 3% annually included in that agreement must be sharply increased. The miners, led by Arnold Miller, who will be negotiating his first contract as president, are determined to dig a lot more money and benefits out of the Bituminous Coal Operators when their present pact expires in November. The operators are equally determined to hold the line. In 1971, Joseph Beirne, president of the Communications Workers, settled for a contract that enraged many of his union's members. That contract expires in July, and Beirne can be expected to push hard for as much...
...with the Soviet Union last June. The French have long argued that if the crunch ever came, the U.S. would never risk the destruction of New York to save Paris-or Manchester, Munich or Milan. Echoing the thoughts of many of his colleagues, Jobert maintained that the U.S.-Soviet pact had brought into question the guarantee of the U.S. nuclear deterrent and, by implication, the Atlantic Alliance itself...
...rare example of idealism: in quiet meetings with Government officials, leaders of the steel industry and the United Steelworkers of America are working out an agreement to change rigid promotion rules that have tended to keep blacks in the most menial and lowest-paying jobs in the mills. The pact would be the first such plan put forward voluntarily by a major industry. In another sense, though, the move appears to be considerably less than an exercise in altruism. Executives and union leaders seem to be trying to do the minimum the law requires in order to escape shelling...