Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pact between the two dynasties, announced in Saud's summer capital of Taif after the monarchs and their retainers had polished off a barbecued camel, will integrate their armed forces and economic policies. In fact, Saud and Hussein have been drawing closer for several years, impelled by common enemies-Israel and Gamal Abdel Nasser-whom they both hate more than they ever hated each other. Both are lumped together by Radio Cairo as "reactionary, feudal, degenerate, corrupt monarchies bleeding the Arab people." Oil-rich Saud has granted some economic aid to poor, refugee-swollen Jordan, and Hussein has become...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A report on the 1938 Munich pact with Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, who, as First Secretary of the British embassy in Berlin during the period, was an eyewitness to that particular prelude...
Home again in 1957, leading the battle against Army Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Lleras persuaded leather-tough Conservative Boss Laureano Gomez to form a coalition, and out of this alliance between historic foes came Colombia's unique National Front pact, under which both parties agreed to alternate the presidency for 16 years. Soon after, a coordinated popular uprising by Liberals and Conservatives swept Rojas out of office. The choice for President: Lleras Camargo, the only man on whom both strong-minded parties could agree...
...haired Ted Heath, 46, was born on the Kentish coast within sight of France-or "the mainland," as he calls it today. In his maiden speech before the House of Commons in 1950, Heath urged the government (in vain) to join the European Coal & Steel Community, the germinal economic pact that was planned as a first step toward the federation of Europe. Last month E.C.S.C. members finally agreed to study Britain's application for full membership. The "Minister for Europe," as Heath is sometimes called, is closer to Prime Minister Macmillan than any other man in British politics...
Died. Demaree Caughey Bess, 68, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post and Far Eastern expert who, at the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, reported that Stalin not only expected war in Europe but welcomed it; in Manhattan...