Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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France would have been in the Warsaw Pact...
...first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to death. Khrushchev appointed Konev commander of the Warsaw Pact armies, then, in 1961, shifted him to Berlin to take charge of Soviet forces during the building of the Berlin Wall...
...first plenary session lasted a mere nine minutes, during which the twelve NATO and seven Warsaw Pact delegations adopted an "arrangement on participation and procedures to be applied to the present consultations and forthcoming negotiations." Translation: the delegates had agreed to sit in alphabetical order around the table rather than grouped in blocs. But where they sat was, at least symbolically, something of a disappointment. The conference had been delayed for so long that it had lost its hold on the baroque council hall in Vienna's Imperial Palace. The delegates instead assembled in the austere meeting rooms...
From all the evidence, the still secret agreement was a coexistence pact with compromises made by both sides...
...Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal, and Israeli armies, under secret pact with Britain and France, invade the Sinai peninsula...