Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tentative SALT pact was reached during two days of talks at the State Department. Vance will fly to Geneva Dec. 20 for a final two-day session with his opposite number, Andrei Gromyko. Barring hitches, the two men will prepare for a summit meeting between Jimmy Carter and Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, probably in Washington during the week...
...talk about each other. Cairo radio accuses the region's oil potentates of amassing wealth in secret foreign bank accounts and ignoring the needs of their own people. An Egyptian editor suggests aloud that Saudi Arabia has "turned to the Soviets to become a member of the Warsaw Pact," adding: "Have the Russians given
Rumania's President and party boss Nicolae Ceauşescu has long defied Moscow in foreign policy matters. His is the only Warsaw Pact country that did; not break relations with Israel after the 1967 war, did not join in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and does not allow, a Soviet military presence on its soil. Ceauşescu has cultivated ties with Peking and has endorsed the U.S.-sponsored Middle East negotiations...
...displaying his independent streak again. At a Warsaw Pact summit in Moscow, he rebuffed Soviet demands for increased defense spending. Later, in Bucharest, he told a "workers' meeting" that he would not make "exaggerated expenditures" on arms. Ceauşescu added; that Rumania "will not surrender to anyone the right to involve the Rumanian, military in any action"-a clear message to Moscow that Bucharest intends to keep its forces out of Soviet control...
Firestone has lived this year with slumping profits, a falling stock price and bad publicity over alleged defects in its 500-series radial tires. Last week it signed a pact with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration promising to recall and replace up to 7.5 million of the radials, which are no longer being manufactured. After tax write-offs, the company expects the recall to cost $135 million, or more than its $110 million profit last year...