Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason Frank says he revealed his homosexuality was to square his private and public lives, to protect himself from the Gobies of the world who don't abide by the tacit social contract among former spouses and lovers not to talk because they know so much. When that pact is broken, the results can be devastating. Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, an able Senator for two terms, lost his seat to challenger Paul Tsongas amid divorce proceedings in 1978, damaged by press reports that focused on the breakup of his marriage...
...flutter of colorful balloons, the sputtering of rattletrap Trabants and Wartburgs and -- pop! -- the burst of champagne corks. It was the Great Trek Westward, and as East Germans headed for new lives in West Germany, the world witnessed a unique spectacle: an East European country defying its Warsaw Pact brethren and openly collaborating with the West to aid and abet refugees in their flight to freedom...
...Europe freed from the threat of military aggression would also be a Europe with resources freed to speed growth and augment its geopolitical clout. Last week both sides pursued that chance in Vienna, where negotiations for reducing conventional armed forces in Europe resumed, with both NATO and the Warsaw Pact pushing for substantial cuts in men and materiel...
...Communists will also retain considerable influence through President Wojciech Jaruzelski, a Communist. The new government also has promised allegiance to the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact military alliance...
...make the exodus possible, he said, Hungary decided to suspend a 1969 agreement with East Germany, a Warsaw Pact ally, saying Hungary should not take into account West Germany's claim to East Germans...