Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take on the care and feeding of 480 million undernourished Indians? Washington flatly disagreed, insisting that Red China was the main enemy of both India and Pakistan. Ayub Khan had already made an effort to test this theory by offering in 1959 to join Nehru in a pact for the mutual defense of the subcontinent. Cracked Nehru, "Defense against whom?" and turned down the treaty...
...uncomplicated age. There were bad and good, rich and poor, oppressors and liberators, fascists and socialists. The dreams of the revolutionary idealists were shattered in 1939 when Stalin signed his nonaggression pact with Hitler. From then on, says Kazin, the role of the intellectuals was forever changed: "The élan of their lives, revolutionary faith in the future, was missing. History was now a tangle of meanings, without clear-cut issue. What would never come back, in this most political of ages, was the faith in a wholly new society that had been implicit in the revolutionary ideal...
...Rocks. The pact provides for 1) the gradual withdrawal from Yemen of the 50,000-man Egyptian expeditionary force within a ten-month period and the cessation of all Saudi help to the royalists; and 2) the formation of a Yemen Congress of 50, representing all factions, which will be charged with forming a transitional regime and establishing procedures for a national plebiscite to determine Yemen's future government. Feisal proved willing to give in to Nasser on points that would help him save face back home in Cairo, but there was no compromise on basics. Nasser hoped...
Shared Blood. Park expected student disorders when his National Assembly ratified the new friendship treaty with Japan (TIME, July 2). To forestall them, the students were sent off on vacations 20 days early, just before final exams. In their absence, the Assembly ratified the pact with Japan-which will normalize relations between the two countries for the first time in 70 years -by a vote of 110 to 0. Opposition assemblymen boycotted the session...
...week, for the first time in 40 years, Malraux was back in China as guest of the Red leaders who achieved the revolution Malraux worked for as a young man. Too individualistic ever to join the party, Malraux's own disillusion with Communism came with the Nazi-Soviet pact, and he has since embraced a narrower creed: Gaullism...