Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a group of lawyers who defended pacificsts during the First World War. After the War, ACLU turned its attention to the emergent labor unions, and then to the New Deal reformers. By the next world war, it moved towards the right. After the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-agression pact, ACLU banned Communists from its staff, thus splitting its ranks and spawning other groups...
...there is also a problem between the young and the middle-aged. There are no older people on the line, because even before the new pact, assembly line workers were able to retire at age 56 with full pension benefits...
When questioned, AID spokesmen have made no effort to deny what their budget involves, and they say that they are adhering to the letter of the Paris pact. "There is no skulduggery here," said one AID official. "If critics want to stop it," he added, "they can try to get enough support on the Hill. We are supporting the national police within the limitations of the agreement...
...these praises, there are real difficulties. Recognizing the need to rejuvenate the Western alliance, Kissinger proposed last April a "new Atlantic Charter" (later redesignated a "Declaration of Principles" after West German Chancellor Willy Brandt complained that the original name sounded too much like the Allies' World War II pact), which was to redefine the principles of cooperation in such varied fields as military security, monetary reform, trade, energy, science. Eventually the blueprint was to include-in most fields other than security-Japan as well. But the Kissinger proposal for the "Year of Europe" has been coolly received in most...
...that in preliminary talks, Chrysler negotiators exhibited less of a "knee-jerk reaction" against such demands than GM or Ford officials. Indeed, almost as soon as they were targeted, Chrysler officials expressed willingness to raise wages and benefits an average 6.2% each year of a new three-year pact, though they did not make a detailed offer. Woodcock did not aggressively demand more. He merely said: "I would want to see how they break that down...