Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn, so the story went, smuggled the vase out of Italy and sold it to the Met. In 1970 UNESCO adopted a draft prohibiting illicit traffic in art objects. The calyx krater would come under that provision, and both the U.S. and Italy have signed the pact...
...headquarters). We could reward the California firebug for risking his person as fire-fighter in the most disastrous fire Berkeley has had in decades, despite his authorship of the same. We could also award a posthumous peace-prize to Herr Von Ribbentrop for cementing a bilateral non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin just prior to the German invasion of Russia...
...release of the final terms will not wholly end the debate over whether the U.S. gained enough in January to justify its refusal to sign the settlement proposed in October. For one thing, the full October pact has never been published, and thus the two accords cannot be precisely compared...
...Soviet envoy, Ambassador Viktor Maltsev, totally rejected a series of "confidence-building" measures, including one that would permit Communist observers at NATO military maneuvers and Westerners at Warsaw Pact exercises. Warning that the East bloc would allow "no room for the dissemination of anticulture," Maltsev implied that Western proposals for an increased flow of ideas and people between East and West would go nowhere. The point was later made more bluntly in a Pravda article, which scoffed that "such impudent claims will meet a firm rebuff...
Surprise. In a move that was clearly intended to add some muscle to that rebuff, the Soviets struck back at the West on the other great European negotiations front, the long-discussed talks on mutual and balanced force reductions (MBFR) by NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations. Last November, NATO proposed that the twelve nations most directly involved should begin the MBFR talks this week in Geneva.* After two months of noncommital silence, Moscow finally responded-twelve days before the talks were to begin. The Soviets made a surprise demand that the location be moved to Vienna and that...