Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdraw from parts of the Sinai as a friendship gesture to Egypt by threatening to resign from the Cabinet, an act that would have brought down Rabin's coalition government. Peres argued that Israel should make territorial concessions only if it got something specific in return, like a pact of nonbelligerency from the Egyptians, and eventually he brought around a majority of his 21 Cabinet colleagues to his way of thinking...
...exported second-and even third-hand arms. Now some of the newest and most sophisticated aircraft, tanks and missiles are for sale. The MIG-23 going to Egypt and Syria is so advanced that Moscow's Warsaw Pact allies do not even have it yet. The U.S. is allowing the export of the remote-controlled TOW, perhaps the world's deadliest antitank weapon, to Israel, South Viet Nam, Lebanon and Jordan...
Rabin has made it clear that he is willing to make withdrawals in the Sinai in return for Egyptian political concessions in the nature of a non-belligerency pact or a demilitarization of the territory. Withdrawal in the Golan Heights presents a more difficult problem because of the great tactical advantage the Golan Heights would give to the Syrian army, traditionally the most virulently anti-Israeli of the bordering Arab states...
...ironed out during the week, as Harvard assured one of the member unions in writing of some minor details about work shifts, but William N. Mullins, manager of employee relations, and John J. Mark, the union's president, are now ready to sit down, smile, and sign the new pact...
...discussion of energy was also on the agenda of the Giscard-Brezhnev meetings, which took place at the Château at Rambouillet, 30 miles southwest of Paris. They signed a five-year economic pact and, in exchange for aid and credits, the Soviet Union will sell