Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranks, there was no question but that the Senate would ratify the treaty on a vote set for this Tuesday morning. But for all that, the two most notable speeches during last week's Senate debate were by members of the handful who plan to vote against the pact...
...Catholic M.R.P. and twice serving as postwar Premier of France (from November 1947 to July 1948, and for another brief period later in 1948), Schuman took over the Foreign Minister's post. In 1949, after helping draw up the North Atlantic Treaty blueprint, he signed the historic NATO pact on France's behalf. In 1950, in league with another French Eurocrat, Jean Monnet, he proposed the "Schuman Plan" for the European Coal and Steel Community, which proved to be the forerunner of the six-nation Common Market, and of the Euratom pool for peaceful nuclear resources...
...Pakistan, even as U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball was objecting to President Mohammed Ayub Khan's new commercial air pact with Peking, Pakistani and Red Chinese diplomats were negotiating a barter agreement last week. A Soviet mission flew into Ottawa to draw up an expanded trade treaty; last month Canada signed a $360 million wheat export deal with Red China. This month West Germany begins negotiating a trade treaty with Hungary...
...when Nancy's injured eye reminded Mrs. Gilliland of their pact, eleven hours had passed since the accident. Was it too late? June Gilliland sent her mother to phone the Pittsburgh Eye Bank from the hospital lobby. There was another call to the undertaker. Within 20 minutes, an eye bank officer arrived with forms for Mrs. Gilliland to sign. In another half-hour, the corneas were removed...
...nonsigner in the Western camp is France. Even Franco Spain, the only Western country which does not have diplomatic relations with Moscow, has signed the treaty, leaving France isolated from all its continental neighbors. Most galling to Charles de Gaulle was West Germany's decision to sign the pact after a reassuring pitch in Bonn by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Bonn's action was doubly upsetting to France, for it followed an announcement that Germany and the U.S. will cooperate in the development of a new battle tank (TIME, Aug. 16); just three months ago, Paris...