Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birmingham, the Pittsburgh of the South, may be facing the problems of Montgomery and Albany in just two or three months. At that time some provisions of the desegregation pact are to go into effect. If the white businessmen back down on their agreements, and the Negroes lack the organizations to force compliance, Birmingham will be just another failure in the non-violent integration movement. This can only be prevented if King, Shuttlesworth, Abernathy. and the other leaders act now to create a Birmingham Committee for integration with active executives and members from Birmingham...
...five-year pact is supposed to increase trade to $160 million this year, to $225 million by 1965 and after that, it all depends on how things work out. Brazil will import Russian oil, wheat, airplanes, tractors and industrial machinery. In turn, the Russians promise to buy Brazilian oranges, cotton, rice, cocoa, plus 60,000 tons of coffee per year-about 5% of Brazil's coffee exports. Being tea drinkers themselves, the Russian's propose to send shiploads of the coffee to Castro's Cuba. And on this point the two countries fell into their first conflict...
Signed to a long-term pact were Singing TV Star Ricky Nelson, 22, and his slick chick Kristin Harmon, 17, applying for a marriage license in Santa Monica, Calif., all set to wed on April 20. "I don't think 22 is too young to get married, if you have found the right girl," said Rick, and Kristin, daughter of former football great Tommy Harmon, looked right as rain. Whether she will join Rick in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet remained to be seen, but with those clannish Nelsons gaining such a pretty new face, it seemed...
...Axis pact got off to a bad start because Hitler never let Mussolini know what he was up to. When he invaded Poland in 1939 without advance warning, the Duce was shaken. He was happy to have German support for his conquests in the Mediterranean, but he did not want to be dragged into a major European war. When Hitler invaded Russia, again without consulting Mussolini, many Fascists began to have second thoughts about the Axis pact. Among them was Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, who upbraided the German ambassador to Italy...
Died. Elisabeth Marie Petznek, 79, only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stephanie of Belgium and last link to the 1889 "Mystery of Mayerling." in which her father and Baroness Marie Vetsera died in an apparent murder-suicide pact that left the Austro-Hungarian throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Hütteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek...