Word: pacts
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Aside from the massive infusions of economic and military aid, the U.S. has played a key role in the conception, implementation and operations of the Central American Defense Council (CONDECA). CONDECA, formally established in 1964, is a military pact between U.S.-supported right-wing Central American military dictatorships (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua) for the purpose of preventing "communist subversion" in the region. CONDECA has direct links with the CIA, and is regularly advised by the Department of Defense via the U.S. Army Southern Command in Panama...
According to the CONDECA pact, troops from the different countries cross one another's borders when there appears to be a particularly strong threat of insurgency in one of the countries. November 1976 witnessed he presence of Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and, according to some reports, U.S. troops in Nicaragua. That operation resulted in the deaths in combat of two FSLN leaders. As recently as October 1977, U.S. military officials have been seen with National Guard patrols on counter-insurgency operations...
Proudly, officers of United Auto Workers Local 2055 announced two weeks ago the completion of negotiation of a first contract for 1,800 members at Volkswagen's six-month-old plant in New Stanton, Pa. The pact called for a minimum wage next year of $7.48 an hour for unskilled workers, rising to $9.62 in 1981, and $9.48 for skilled diemakers, rising in three years to $11.62 - plus fringes. But the workers were not buying. Last week they rejected the contract 1,235 to 94 and stomped out on strike...
...deal and the future status of these occupied territories. The Egyptians expect the Israelis to make some unilateral gestures on the West Bank to parallel the Sinai talks. For one thing, they want the Israelis to dismantle their military government at about the time that an Israeli-Egyptian peace pact is signed. Another gesture could be the release of a sizable number of Palestinian political prisoners...
What Murdoch did was to work out a "me too" deal, first with pressmen, whose walkout shut down the papers Aug. 9, then with several other unions that joined the strike against the three papers after they stopped publishing. The pact allows the Post to go to press immediately, and requires Murdoch by and large to go along with whatever settlement terms the unions can win later from the Times and the News. In exchange, Murdoch gained an important concession from the pressmen that will hold for the Post regardless of what the two other papers agree to. Under that...