Word: pacts
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...aspect of relations between the two countries, is still going on. In 1970, the Nixon Administration paid dearly (to the tune of about $500 million a year in additional aid) for the ceasefire with Egypt. Henry Kissinger's 1975 Sinai agreement may well have been the most expensive pact ever negotiated. It not only pledged enormous financial and political support but also opened America's arsenal of advanced weapons to Israel and guaranteed Israel's oil supply for five years. Since Iran still supplies about 50% of Israel's oil, that U.S. guarantee would become particularly...
High up on the list of American complaints is the sluggishness with which Japan has moved to live up to the trade agreement that was concluded with the U.S. last January. That pact pledged Japan to cut tariff walls and quotas, with the aim of bringing U.S.-Japanese trade back into balance by 1980. But there have been few signs that the promises are being kept, and trade hassles with the Japanese are still regularly in the headlines (last week's concerned Japanese import quotas on American beef and oranges...
...fellow laureates: Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann, the French and German statesmen who won the 1926 prize for the ill-fated Locarno peace trea ties, in which Belgium, France and Germany agreed never to fight again; American Diplomat Frank Kellogg, who was the originator of the Utopian Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, in which 15 powers, including Germany and Japan, agreed to renounce war as an instrument of national policy; and former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was named posthumously as lau reate in 1961, while his U.N. peace keeping force soldiered on in the bloody...
...threatening bargaining tactics. Because the University refused to compromise on the benefits issue, the members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union voted in a stormy meeting to ratify the University contract offer. Their vote reversed an earlier decision in September to reject the pact...
Last week marked the University's first victory in a contest of wills with Harvard dining hall workers. Members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union voted Tuesday night to accept the University's contract offer, reversing an earlier union decision to reject the pact...