Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political observers on both sides of the Iron Curtain immediately realized, Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev was also playing a game all his own. Only two days earlier, Brezhnev had abruptly canceled his plans to visit Bucharest for the long-delayed signing of a new Soviet-Rumanian friendship pact, pleading a "catarrhal ailment." His subsequent appearance at the soccer match was designed to expose the respiratory disorder for exactly what it was: a calculated snub to Rumania's independent-minded Communist Party Leader Nicolae Ceausescu...
...Yasser Arafat, who heads the Al-Fatah guerrillas and last week was named commander in chief of the twelve major guerrilla organizations, flew into Amman from Cairo to arrange a truce. In an all-night session at the palace, he and Hussein hammered out a ten-point pact, mostly favorable to the fedayeen...
...leftist riots and rallies that proclaimed "Nixon, boia [Nixon, hangman]!" and "Al-Fatah vincerà [Al-Fatah will conquer]!" NATO was created in 1949 to defend Western Europe against Communist military aggression. But when the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO members met last week, they invited their Warsaw Pact opponents as well as nonaligned European countries to join with them in a search for ways to reduce tensions in the center of the Continent. Said U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers: "Within NATO, the objective of improving East-West relations should stand equal to our commitment to our common...
Help! According to last week's rescue pact, King Resources would lend I.O.S. $20 million in cash for three years. John King also agreed to arrange for an additional $20 million line of credit, though the big question is where he would get that money. His spokesmen in Geneva said that The Bank of New York and Fidelity Corp., which is a holding company based in Richmond, were part of his group. Both firms denied any connection with King...
...make sure that Czechoslovakia stayed liberated, Brezhnev brought with him a new 20-year Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship pact, even though the current document was not due to expire until 1983. The most important change was the formalizing of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which proclaims Moscow's right to "defend" any member of the Warsaw Pact against "military or revanchist forces." The treaty also calls for mutual military assistance in case of attack, "no matter what state or group of states" is involved. That provision, which the Kremlin wants to insert in the friendship treaties that it has imposed...