Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most surprising switches in modern times was the dramatic Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact of 1939, which not only stunned the world but even split many of the world's Communist Parties, which could not stomach a pact with Hitler. Later, after Hitler turned on Russia and the U.S. entered the war, the notion of accepting the Soviet Union as an ally shocked many Americans, who had considered the Bolsheviks archvillains ever since the revolution...
Split Hairs. A dramatic life, in the eye of great events. A dramatic death, with the ink barely dry on the Stalin-Hitler Pact. No wonder interest in Trotsky has persisted into the new revolutionary age. His history of the Russian Revolution is a Marxist classic. My Life, his tendentious autobiography, is a perennial paperback. Since January, at least four new books have been published about...
Trouble is, the issue is tangled in the election-year rhetoric of both countries. Prime Minister Trudeau has received so much mail on the auto pact that his political advisers are convinced that any major concessions could cost him a half dozen parliamentary seats from car-producing Ontario in this year's election. U.S. officials have taken to playing on Canadian fears of congressional retaliation, possibly by a reimposition of the 7% excise tax on Canadian-made cars-although things are not likely to come to that for some time. "There are elements in this country which are protectionist...
...Once the pact is ratified by union members, it will face one more hurdle: the Pay Board. The agreement's average yearly increment of 23% is four times the board's 5.5% guideline. Union and company bargainers are hopeful, however, that the board will consider the package a "catchup" settlement and allow it to stand. Bridges' men have not negotiated a raise since...
...Ottawa in the spring. Canadian diplomats would like to have an agreement covering many other trade issues-notably relaxation of U.S. restrictions on purchases of Canadian uranium, aircraft and farm-machinery parts-ready for the President's signature. But if neither side tempers its stand on the auto pact, Nixon may sign nothing more important than Trudeau's guest book...