Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...away intransigently at the NATO alliance. Now, on the other side of the eroding Iron Curtain, the Russians were getting a taste of the same galling medicine. Out of many Eastern European capitals last week came reports of a Rumanian round-robin message to the nations of the Warsaw Pact...
...were no longer needed in Eastern Europe, since the threat of U.S. aggression had faded. It proposed that any nation desiring Russian troops on its soil should conclude bilateral treaties with Moscow to keep them. The message also suggested that Moscow should gain the unanimous approval of all Warsaw Pact nations before it ever uses its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. And, asked the Rumanians, why should not the command of the Warsaw Pact military alliance be rotated among member nationalities, rather than remaining solely in Russian hands...
...dictating Rumanian party policy-"though this was the inalienable right of the party itself." That, according to Ceausescu, laid the groundwork for Moscow's sellout of the Rumanian Reds during the early days of World War II-through the expedient of the 1940 Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact...
...tied in neatly with Ceausescu's emphasis on "the nation as a form of human community." With Gaullist gall, Ceausescu also struck out against "military blocs" as "incompatible with the national independence and sovereignty of peoples." Was he suggesting a walkout from the Warsaw Pact...
...Proposed that the U.S., Russia and other potential space powers join in a treaty declaring the moon and other celestial bodies off limits to earthly rivalries. Modeled after the 1960 treaty for Antarctica, the space pact would deny any nation the right to claim sovereignty over the new lands of space, or use them for any form of military activity...