Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Kissinger and Tho met on Tuesday (their 24th round of talks in 3½ years), the atmosphere was surprisingly amiable, and instead of the anticipated two days of hard bargaining, final agreement came in just four hours. Photographers were called in to record the initialing of a completed pact by Tho and Kissinger, although this fact was not disclosed. The historic announcement was left to simultaneous broadcasts in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi...
...must get the approval of the Federal Communications Commission for rate increases, the company is especially vulnerable to Government prodding. Most of its workers are women, and they have almost always been hired for low-paying jobs as operators or clerks and given little chance for advancement. In a pact with the Labor Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, AT&T agreed to make a record one-time payment of $15 million in back wages to employees whose incomes have been held down because of job discrimination. The back pay will go to 13,000 women...
...addition, AT&T agreed to improve employment conditions for 36,000 minority and women workers by increasing wages and stepping up their promotions. This part of the pact will cost the company another $23 million. Under a new hiring policy, the company will try to hire enough men to make up 10% of the operators' force and 25% of the clerical staff. As part of the agreement, the EEOC will withdraw its discrimination charges against the company before...
Just as Hammer was about to leave, Dzherman Gvishiani, a top Soviet science official, produced an untranslated draft of a pact that he suggested Hammer take back to the U.S. to study. Instead, Hammer flipped through it for 30 seconds and changed just one word, scratching out "draft" and substituting "agreement." Then he signed it and handed it back to Gvishiani. When the Russian began to hem and haw, Hammer asked in mock amazement how the Soviet official could possibly object to signing his own draft. After those theatrics, the agreement was an anticlimax: it is a nebulous "technical cooperation...
Jubilation. The Soviets, who have long been lecturing their East-bloc allies that the only true Communism is orthodox Communism, are jubilant. Despite its new homage to Moscow-style Marxism, Belgrade is not expected to join the Warsaw Pact or seek active membership in Comecon, Eastern Europe's common market. In a New Year's address Tito stressed Belgrade's political nonalignment. The Soviets, he said, "have finally come to see Yugoslavia in her special role as a positive thing...