Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fully Meshed. Until the trade pact was signed, Canada's U.S.-owned auto plants had to gear themselves to a relatively small market. Although demand was sufficient to justify manufacturing a number of basic models, it hardly warranted turning out a full line. If a Canadian buyer wanted a Thunderbird, it had to be imported-with a 17½% duty added onto the price...
...growing strength, and he plans to consolidate it at a special party congress in September. Dubček, however, had to make certain concessions last month to visiting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. He promised, for one thing, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Warsaw Pact by permitting "staff exercises" in Czechoslovakia of troops from the Soviet bloc. The soldiers, most of them from the signal corps, were prompt to arrive. At week's end, the first of about 3,000 Soviet forces crossed the Russian border into eastern Slovakia even as the Central Committee was in session. Many Czechoslovaks...
...They emphasized the Center-Left's failures by promising similar measures themselves, such as a $50 monthly pension, rights for women, low-cost housing, a more efficient tax-collecting system. In foreign policy, they advocated withdrawal from NATO, but avoided calling for membership in the Moscow-run Warsaw Pact. They also won new voters among Catholics, arguing that Pope John's Vatican Council had liberated Catholics to vote Communist in good conscience if they wished...
...right with the New Left's own tactics; despite its name, its appearance is hip, its art psychedelic. Only the message is different: against free love and drugs, for the draft and the war in Viet Nam. One article draws a parallel between the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 and the current alliance of New Leftists and black militants; another charges that the rash of violence on U.S. campuses is Communist-inspired and part of "Mickey Mao's trap." A comic-strip hero called Super Square participates in such right-wing victories as the resignation of Defense Secretary...
...position to persist in his independent course while simultaneously moving toward more liberalization in Rumania's tightly controlled society. Defying Kremlin directives, Rumania has maintained cordial relations with both China and Israel, in Soviet eyes the Middle East aggressor. Recently, Rumania balked at joining fellow Warsaw Pact members in signing the Moscow-Washington nuclear-proliferation draft treaty, arguing that it failed to protect small nations from nuclear blackmail by larger powers...