Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economist from industrial Turin in northern Italy, Saragat belonged to the Socialist party directorate as early as 1925. He spent the Fascist years in exile in Austria and France, returning to Italy in 1943 and joining the first anti-Fascist government. Because he bitterly opposed the "unity of action" pact with the Communists, Saragat broke with the Socialists to form his own party. In his long career, Saragat has ably filled posts ranging from Ambassador to France to Foreign Minister...
...Home Folks. In the General Assembly, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko dutifully echoed the African charges, along with the customary catalogue of Russian threats and promises, including a demand that the U.S. abandon its proposed multilateral nuclear force and an offer of a NATO-Iron Curtain nonaggression pact. The Assembly was still operating under its moratorium on voting-self-imposed to avert a showdown over Russia's peacekeeping arrears. And there was quite an interruption when, to protest the appearance of Castro-Communist Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a Cuban exile fired a bazooka shell at the U.N. Secretariat building...
...predictable to Westerners looking for new departures under the new regime. He denounced the U.S. and Belgium for "intervention" in the Congo, promised Soviet aid in the event of "imperialist aggression" against North Viet Nam and Cuba. If the Western allies pressed ahead with MLF, he warned, the Warsaw Pact nations would be forced to "consult" on countermeasures. He gave the United Nations a passing plug as a valuable "international forum," but failed to mention whether the Kremlin intended to pay its U. N. bills...
...fight, kiss, fight, split up, fight, make up, and fight. The stage, like the plot, might seem bare except that each lover introduces the other to a secret love. He is seduced by his body, she is ravished by her mind. Act III is devoted to a hilarious suicide pact in which despair gets bogged down in logistics...
...agreement with General Motors. On the tenth day of the strike and with almost 300,000 men out of work, he changed his mind, decided that a national settlement would help to iron out local differences. After that, it took only eleven hours of negotiation to reach a national pact. That did not immediately end G.M.'s problems. Because thousands of local work issues remained in dispute, scores of locals stayed out. Instead of a national strike, the union now had local strikes on a national level...