Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics caused an increasing storm as well. A Czech professor speaking to an SRO crowd in Sanders denounced the Munich Pact as offering no real peace. Five days later, an exuberant group of Yardlings heckled an American Legion parade by goosestepping alongside it, shouting "hells...
President Johnson announced the pact, said it would be signed this week. Under it, each nation may open consulates outside the capital cities, possibly in Leningrad and Chicago. The pact requires that whenever one nation arrests a citizen of the other, it must notify the other nation within three days, permit a visit from the prisoner's countrymen within, four days. It is the first bilateral treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and will, of course, require ratification by the U.S. Senate...
...this was an historic event. What a great man, what a great mind!" Informed observers thought the talk dealt with 1) a better share in Saharan oil for Algeria, 2) an increase in French aid, now running at $200 million annually, and 3) Algerian membership in a proposed Mediterranean pact that would include France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, Tunisia and Morocco...
...special meeting of the Organization for African Unity. This fledgling Pan-African grouping of 33 states was created last May at Addis Ababa, where Emperor Haile Selassie sponsored the latest moves toward continental unity. The O.A.U. is an amalgam of two earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
...nations are bickering a bit among themselves, 75 of them have banded together to push joint proposals onto the Geneva agenda. Cheered by the success of the price-regulating International Coffee Agreement that was created by the U.N. in 1962, they now want the U.N. members to sign another pact putting floors under most other fluctuating commodity prices. They also aim to pressure the Communist countries, which now take scarcely 5% of their exports, to buy more. And they want the industrial powers not only to lower their barriers against imports of manufactured goods from the backward nations, but also...