Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clause in the United Nations Charter far more vital than he knew; thinking primarily of Latin American relations, he enlisted the aid of Michigan's late, great Senator Arthur Vandenberg, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, in providing for the right of U.N. members to make regional security pacts, thereby laid the groundwork for such postwar defense alliances as NATO, SEATO and the Baghdad Pact...
Glitter Gone. The new regime is still wreaking its vengeance on the old. Last week the government prosecutor demanded the head of U.S.-educated ex-Premier Fadhil Jamali. Jamali's chief crime: taking Iraq into the Baghdad Pact. Cried the prosecutor: "God ordained that we should have one head left out of those destroyed at the hands of the people. God be praised for these blessed hours in which the enemy of the people stands in the prisoner's dock before the People's Court...
This forthright statement on a subject that had been rumored for months shocked officials, set diplomats and newsmen scurrying to find out precisely what Noon meant. Opposition leaders and newspapers detected a plot. Behind Noon, they cried, "was the same hidden hand which forced us into the Baghdad Pact...
...Welcomes the renewed assurances given by the Arab States to observe the provisions of Article 8 of the Pact of the League of Arab States that 'each member state shall respect the system of government established in other member states' . . . and that 'each shall pledge to abstain from any action calculated to change established systems of government...
Many big companies still like long-term contracts. General Motors' position: the longer the better for all concerned. Yet even G.M., which started the trend to lengthy contracts by signing the first important five-year pact with the United Auto Workers in 1950, has been burned. In the first half of 1958, when earnings dropped by $147,700,000, its labor bill went up per worker, because of a cost-of-living rise. G.M., U.S. Steel and the other giants can afford such bumps as the price of labor peace. Many a smaller company cannot. Says a spokesman...