Word: pacts
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...which guarantees access between West Berlin and West Germany and allows West Berliners to travel with relative freedom to East Germany and to East Berlin. The accord, however, contained next to nothing for East Germans, and their complaints trickled up to Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker. During a Warsaw Pact summit meeting last September, he proposed that travel restrictions be eased within the Communist bloc. The suggestion was warmly welcomed by Warsaw, which is anxious to avoid a repetition of the disastrous workers' riots of December 1970 and by the Czechoslovak government, which has been plagued by massive popular...
...will find in Poland a relative freedom of speech that they cannot enjoy at home. Besides nonaligned Yugoslavia, the only other country to remain outside the new arrangements is the Soviet Union itself, whose citizens remain less free to travel than those of any other nation in the Warsaw Pact...
Amos & Boris by William Steig. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.50. A seagoing rodent and a whale sign a long-term mutual-assistance pact in a variation on the old lion-and-the-mouse caper. In an off year, the year's best...
...believes it still has the West on a leash. More than any of his NATO allies, Heath is suspicious of Soviet moves toward detente in Europe. At Bermuda, he will warn Nixon not to get trapped into any unintentional commitments in Moscow on reduction of NATO and Warsaw Pact troop levels; he may also ask Nixon's aid in his attempts to get France back into the European defense effort. Nixon will be pleased, however, to find that Heath believes in a "natural relationship" between Britain and the U.S. BRANDT. West Germany's Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt...
...while. Labor Secretary James Hodgson admitted as much last week by noting that the Administration fully expected to "swallow" a few extra large settlements early in Phase 11. These included the 15% pay boost granted coal miners in the first year of a new contract and a pact giving railroad signalmen a more than 16% raise, which was approved last week by the Pay Board. But all settlements involving more than 1,000 workers must be reported to the Pay Board, and the Administration expects that cases exceeding the guideline will become few and far between after the first...