Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roger Fisher, a Law School professor who shared the platform with Hughes, observed that the issue "has had more effort spent on it than it deserves for its own importance." But he said that the risk of signing a pact was less than that of trying to gain military advantage from small nuclear tests...
Last week, after three months of delicate negotiations in Warsaw, Poland at last dropped its tough demands, and the two sides signed their first long-term trade agreement, a threeyear, $650 million pact exchanging West German machinery and metals for Polish meat, fruit and dairy products. West Germany will send a permanent trade mission to Warsaw, its first permanent outpost in a Soviet satellite land. Bonn officials clearly feel the way is open for similar deals with Hungary and Czechoslovakia...
India angrily fired off notes to both Rawalpindi and Peking condemning the pact. New Delhi was less disturbed by the barren, mountainous geography involved than by the fact that Pakistan Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could travel to Peking and negotiate a separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises...
...costly settlement," said Negotiator Amory H. Bradford, vice president of the Times, "but one acceptable to the publishers." The pact will add $18.5 million to the newspapers' expenses over the next two years-and may well force the morning papers to raise their price to a dime. But it was far less expensive than it might have been. Powers went into the strike demanding a $37-a-week package increase, wound up with $12.50-including $8 in wages. And while Powers had insisted that his chief concern was not money but three matters of "principle," he got all that...
...precious little to show in return. Laos' Communist, neutralist and pro-Western factions, loosely stitched into a coalition government as a result of the Geneva agreement, are still at one another's throats. Communist troops from Viet Nam still prowl the country, in violation of the Geneva pact. Communist Pathet Lao troops still pillage and kill...