Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the treaty is so remarkable or so very different from similar pacts the U.S. has with 28 other countries. In its most important provisions, it would simply permit diplomats of both nations to assist their citizens who have run afoul of the law and have been arrested in their travels. What bothered some Senators-and kept the pact in limbo for more than 21 years -was the fear, amply supported by statements from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, that Soviet officials would use their U.S. consulates as espionage centers...
...leadership, Syria has nonetheless been forced to cooperate with him. But even Egypt, long the revolutionary center of the Middle East, feels nervous about Damascus' rabid adventurism. In order to prevent a major war from growing out of Syria's madness, Nasser signed a mutual defense pact with Syria last November that demands consultation before any major attack on another country. The fact is that Syria's military is too weak to carry off a war on its own against Israel or anyone else...
...seduces her sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants are muttering that Rakóssy must have a pact with Satan. But Rakóssy is directly in the route of the Turkish invasion, and in two splendid battle pieces, his own castle and Vrath are stormed by the Turks. As sole survivor, Rakóssy hunts down and kills a final Magyar enemy and then rides mindlessly...
These are the men responsible--some say to a dangerous degree--for the BRA Lower Roxbury Community Corporation pact...
There was no guarantee that all parties would adhere to the pact. Despite Communist objections, the democratic leftists announced that in some elections they might throw their support behind candidates of Jean Lecanuet's Progressive Catholic Party. (Cracked Socialist Mollet: "Hell does not begin just to the right of the Radical Party.") The Socialist vice president of the National Assembly, Jean Montalat, went even one step further. Pact or no pact, he warned stoutly, he would refuse to bow out to a Communist if he faced a run-off election...