Word: pact
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Three weeks ago, State Representative Charles F. Flaherty Jr. (D-Camb.) filed a bill requiring Harvard to grant a minimum of 25 Indian fellowships. The bill cites a 1693 agreement made by Harvard and the Commissioners of Massachusetts. In the pact, the University agreed to provide "rent-free" studies to Indian students in return for permission to demolish the Indian College, built in 1654. The Indians were to live in the new building that Harvard erected to replace the structure...
Kent Frizzell, an assistant attorney general, negotiated the pact to set up Washington talks. Although no one can predict with any certainly the consequences of the events at Wounded Knee, a shakeup at Interior and the BIA seems inevitable...
...Federal government curses that treaty even now. The members of the militant American Indian Movement who occupied the historic site of Wounded Knee made the 1868 treaty-the critical pact of what they term a long "trail of broken treaties"-their rallying...
Ceauşescu's nationalism, in fact, has made him the enfant terrible of the Warsaw Pact countries ever since he came to power in 1965. Harshly orthodox in domestic policy but highly independent abroad, he is the one Soviet bloc leader who has been able to go his own way without provoking a Czechoslovakia-style crackdown. He even goes so far as to say that military blocs have become an anachronism...
Rumania was the first Warsaw Pact country to recognize West Germany, the first to join the International Monetary Fund, and the first to receive an American President, Richard Nixon. Ceauşescu's role in thawing relations between Peking and Washington has earned him the gratitude of both China and the U.S. Nixon has promised to obtain most favored nation status for Rumanian trade, and Ceauşescu recently became the first East European leader to buy U.S. airliners-three Boeing 707s for more than $40 million, including one outfitted for Ceauşescu like Richard Nixon...