Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighbors for four years and cost Malaysia and her British allies an estimated $2 billion, was formally ended last week when General Suharto's enlightened government in Djakarta re-established diplomatic relations with Kuala Lumpur. In another tenth birthday present to Malaysia, the Filipinos signed an antismuggling pact to cut illegal trade between Sabah and Mindanao, thereby resolving an ancient territorial dispute...
Squelching Rumors. TV coverage in Milwaukee was exemplary. The three stations made a pact to withhold news of the riot overnight in order to give it a chance to cool down. When CORE Leader Cecil Brown Jr. called a press conference during which he spread a false rumor that an innocent Negro had been shot to death by police, the stations covered the speech but did not run it. "All that screaming is a lot more provocative than just quoting someone," says Carl Zimmermann, news director of WITI-TV. But like enterprising newsmen, the stations do not plan to waste...
...Outer Mongolia has practically broken off relations with China in the wake of Red Guard attacks on the Mon golian embassy in Peking protesting a mutual-aid pact signed in January by Ulan Bator and Moscow...
...Consolation. De Gaulle's blackball of the British came while he was visiting the West German capital of Bonn for the semiannual talks on the Franco-West German pact signed in 1963. He was greeted by Chancellor Kurt Kiesineer, who was somewhat exasperated because his French ally had gone off on his own during the Middle East crisis and ignored him while consulting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. De Gaulle explained that his policy was to assure that at least one Western nation (his own) would remain on friendly terms with the Arabs. He also told Kiesinger about his feeling...
Moynihan's phone call to Kodak in June was the prime mover in resuming negotiations, which at the end of twelve days resulted in the pact which satisfied both sides. During those days, Moynihan was immersed in what he calls a "complex process"--a process by which he evidently placed drops of oil, via telephone, on a few strategic points of friction...