Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such efforts serve to strengthen blacks' conviction that they can eventually compete with whites, but in a sense these steps can offer only distant hopes for real interracial progress. Proud as he is of his pact with A. & P., Jesse Jackson concedes that it accomplished little toward eliminating racism in the Chicago area. "We didn't change the hearts of the executives," he says. "We simply changed the behavior
...diplomatic risk. He is betting that over the next two or three decades, the attractiveness and economic strength of the West will work marked changes on the East bloc countries-if only they can be opened up to outside influences. The orthodox Communists who rule most of the Warsaw Pact countries are betting just the opposite: that they can use West German economic aid and know-how to enhance their hold on the allegiance of their citizens...
...cardinal failure of recent U.S. policy has been that Washington has sought to achieve a nuclear settlement with the Soviets without simultaneously seeking a military detente concerning ground forces in Europe, where the Warsaw Pact combat forces outnumber NATO forces by at least 2 to 1. With the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) negotiations soon to begin in Vienna between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, many Europeans are increasingly worried that they no longer loom very large in American defense considerations. Sensing this attitude, the Soviets have resumed their old call for a European security conference designed to make...
What are Brandt's major aims? In the Moscow negotiations, he hopes to achieve a nonaggression pact in which the Soviets will, in effect, renounce their rights as victors, under the Potsdam Agreement and United Nations Charter, to intervene in West Germany against a military or political threat. Though Soviet intervention may seem remote, Bonn would rest more easily if the Russians disclaimed those rights. In Warsaw, Brandt hopes to lay the foundation for the future establishment of full diplomatic recognition and stronger cultural and economic ties. But as Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski told Tinnin, Poland insists...
...present sensitive, and perhaps promising, political situation in Europe. If the Nixon Administration says that it intends to withdraw large numbers of American troops, the U.S. and its NATO allies will lose the opportunity to use those troops as a bargaining counter for comparable force reductions by the Warsaw Pact countries. By the same token, Willy Brandt will not be able to negotiate equitable settlements in Central Europe if the U.S. undercuts his position by withdrawing a large part of its forces. "The Federal Republic is no wanderer between two worlds," Brandt has declared. The implication is that Brandt...