Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other to open it. Bridge or no bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow could not agree on terms to renew their informal "humanitarian" pact to allow West Berliners to visit relatives living in the Communist sector of the city...
Good or Bad. To many Frenchmen, the scene recalled the Popular Fronts that surged to power in the '30s under the banner of militant antifascism. For all the fanfare, however, the new leftist pact was a far cry from that. Although the new league agreed in general that such things as De Gaulle's force de frappe and the American bombing of North Viet Nam were bad and that birth control and capital-gains taxes were good, its members found much more to disagree on, such as whether NATO was good or bad. So divided were the parties...
...Soviet Union last week reached long-expected agreement on a treaty to ban all weapons from outer space. President Johnson called the international pact, which must yet be approved by the United Nations and ratified by individual governments, "the most important arms-control development since the 1963 treaty limiting nuclear tests. This treaty has historic significance for the new age of space exploration." Peace on earth will be more difficult to attain. Even as the space-treaty was announced, Russia and thef U.S. appeared headed toward what; could be a new round in the nuclear, arms race...
...long-pending agreement to open consular offices in selected U.S. and Soviet cities, and authorized the exchange of weather information with the Russians. Further, he has suggested several more substantive steps: a mutual reduction of forces in Central Europe, a treaty against the spread of nuclear weapons, a pact governing the peaceful uses of space, a tariff reduction for the Communist bloc, and the lifting of bans on travel by Americans in Albania, North Viet Nam, North Korea, Cuba and Red China...
...Chinese. The Chinese have cleared a twelve-mile border strip along the Sinkiang border as a security measure, and pumped in Chinese immigrants to farm -and defend - the territory. Russia is trying to do the same thing in Siberia, hoping to get a long-term economic pact with Japan to develop the Siberian economy...