Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With no great enthusiasm, the dozen foreign ministers solemnly signed the Act of Paris,* a compromise document that will help bring international pressure upon the combatants to live up to the Paris peace settlement, which had been signed in the same room one month earlier. The pact provides a channel for handling violations of the cease-fire when-and if-they are reported by the four-nation (Canada, Hungary, Poland and Indonesia) International Commission of Control and Supervision. The ICCS, or any one of its members, will report violations to the four original combatants-the U.S., South Viet Nam, North...
...were North Viet Nam's Nguyen Duy Trinh, France's Maurice Schumann, Britain's Alec Douglas-Home, Indonesia's Adam Malik, Poland's Stefan Olszowski and Hungary's Janos Peter. The U.N.'s Kurt Waldheim was present but did not sign the pact...
...walls of SHAPE headquarters near Brussels, battle maps pinpoint the location of the 1,000,000 troops of the seven-nation Warsaw Pact, as well as the 4,200 Soviet tactical and medium-range nuclear weapons pointed at the heart of Western Europe. On the walls of the Warsaw Pact Command Headquarters in Moscow, other maps pinpoint the location of NATO'S 580,000 troops, as well as its 7,000 nuclear weapons...
Thus detente may be a blessing for the people of Europe, but it has hardly made the life of a military commander in either NATO or the Warsaw Pact any easier. How, for example, can a Soviet field marshal argue convincingly about the threat of war with Western Europe when the Trade Ministry down the street is selling oil, magnesium and titanium to the West...
...obviously risks giving a new spin to the destructive wage-price spiral. United Rubber Workers President Peter Bommarito, who will be negotiating several important contracts later this year, told colleagues in Florida that he plans to shoot for a 10% pay raise in the first year of each new pact. An implied tie between wage increases and the cost of living would almost surely prompt union negotiators to press for extra-high wage boosts, since the Government's consumer price index has lately taken some big jumps. In January it rose by a distressing .5% almost entirely because retail...