Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principles governing Soviet industry and labor, which Landau rightly castigates? Who was responsible for the decimation of the command of the Red Army and the illegal system which tried and executed thousands of revolutionaries for being "Nazi agents" and then a year later signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler...
...Soviets have two other severe handicaps. One is the questionable reliability of their Warsaw Pact allies, who in the event of an emergency might not prove too helpful to the Communist cause. An even more serious failing is lack of experience. For better or worse, the U.S. has fought two major wars in the past two decades. An entire generation of Soviet officers and N.C.O.'s, however, have never been subjected to the crucible of combat...
Asked by Councilor Barbara Ackermann if the city could have denied a permit on April 15th. he replied "The City does not have to use the Bill of Rights as a suicide pact...
...reconvening of the 1954 and 1962 Geneva negotiations? If so, the U.S. would suddenly have a promising third route-apart from the stonewalled Paris peace talks and the slow-moving Vietnamization program-to settle the war. The U.S. has recently urged the 14 signatories of the 1962 Geneva Pact to cooperate in a new effort to ensure the neutrality of Laos. At week's end, Malik dashed U.S. hopes by declaring that a reconvening of the Geneva conference would be "unrealistic...
...AGIP. Last month a number of new offshore exploration contracts were signed. British Petroleum agreed to invest $8,500,000 in the first eight years of a 30-year contract. Gulf & Western Industries, the Manhattan-based conglomerate that has never been in the oil-drilling business, also signed a pact to explore. Dr. Wendell Phillips, a skillful promoter, won the only contract awarded to an individual in Indonesia; he paid a $500,000 fee and agreed to spend $17.5 million exploring onshore and offshore in West Irian...