Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BERLIN--Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev stepped up his courtship of Western Europe yesterday saying he would support disbanding the Warsaw Pact and NATO alliances...
...speech to workers in East Berlin, the Soviet Communist Party general secretary said Moscow was ready for "a simultaneous disbanding of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, or, for a start, their military organizations...
...Soviets have previously said they were prepared to scrap the Warsaw Pact if the West dissolved the NATO military alliance. The offers have been viewed with skepticism in the West...
Rodgers understandably resented the implication. He held secret meetings with Jackson and PUSH leaders, who promised to stop claiming credit for his appointment. Rodgers also insisted that he would not sign a PUSH pact that called for hiring quotas or other specific actions. He is said to have told Jackson and the others that if PUSH is interested in cutting a better deal for blacks, it should stop pressuring him publicly. Left alone, Rodgers argued, he would appoint more blacks, but he does not want to appear to be caving in to their demands. Apparently persuaded, Jackson told TIME last...
...carry more than half the crude oil imports of the U.S. It is but a half-hour jet flight away from perhaps the most critical "choke point" of all, the Panama Canal. There have been some ominous signs that Nicaragua is preparing to serve as a Soviet base. Warsaw Pact engineers are building a deep-water port on the Caribbean side, "similar," Reagan said in his speech, "to the naval base in Cuba for Soviet-built submarines." Under construction outside Managua is "the largest military airfield in Central America," said Reagan, "similar to those in Cuba from which Russian Bear...