Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouraged Ceauşescu - who is as critical of the Warsaw Pact as De Gaulle is of NATO - to join him in breaking up the system of blocs that divides Europe. Flamboyantly, he invited Rumania "to march side by side" with France toward a united Europe free from big-power domination. The two leaders agreed to form a commission to coordinate their efforts toward this goal, and De Gaulle declared in sonorous tones "the right of each people to speak in its own voice...
...time being, at least, the Soviets seemed merely to be putting on a show of force across the borders of Czechoslovakia in order to pressure Dubcek into slowing the pace of liberalization. Radio Prague announced belatedly that the troop movements were part of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and that the Czechoslovak government had been notified in advance that they were to take place. But the hard-liners were clearly trying to put heat...
...draft treaty is primarily the work of the United States and the Soviet Union. It has the support of a third nuclear power, Britain. The two others, France and China, will not sign the treaty. As expected, China, which is not a member of the U.N., has denounced the pact as a Soviet-U.S. "plot...
...garbage men had reason enough to rejoice. Their predominantly Negro union not only forced a form of recognition from the cotton capital; its 14-month pact with city hall also calls for some solid pocketbook gains, including grievance procedures, a system of mer it promotions and a 9% pay hike. Mayor Henry Loeb, who bitterly branded the strike illegal when it began ten weeks ago, even agreed to a dues checkoff; under a face-saving scheme, a credit union will collect the money for the sanitationmen's treasury...
Some agreement was crucial as part of the effort to restore confidence in monetary arrangements, lately shaken by the gold crisis and buffeted by wrangles over the future role of gold in global finance. What the pact demonstrated is that most of the West's leading nations are still able to overcome parochial concerns and organize in the interest of economic stability...