Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers scoured the border area by helicopter and snowmobile in the bitter cold, officials quietly checked with Moscow to see what had happened. President Mauno Koivisto declared in a New Year's message that cruise missiles were causing "insecurity" in Scandinavia and called on both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to accept a ban on such weapons in northern Europe. But his remarks had been recorded a week earlier and were not precipitated by the wayward missile. In Norway, the government decided to send a note of protest to the Soviet Union, but the Norwegian defense chief, General Frederik Bull...
Although none of the councillors questioned Healy's record of achievement, Sullivan questioned a provision in the new contract which would allow the city manager to collect a $70,000 salary and benefits for the duration of his term--even if the city council dismissed him before the pact runs...
...Jesus expelled Fernando Cardenal Martinez when the priest refused to resign as Nicaragua's Education Minister. Jesuit officials in Rome cited a 1983 canon law that forbids priests to hold posts that carry civil powers. In a 19-page open letter, Cardenal defended his job as a "pact with the poor." There was no word from the Vatican on the three other priests in the Nicaraguan government, including Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...
...Nobel laureate in literature, Czech Poet Jaroslav Seifert, 83, was little known outside his homeland. For Czechs, it was a recognition that was overdue: he has long been revered for his insistence on artistic freedom. Even during the bleak days after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces, Seifert spoke out forcefully against the policies of the new Soviet-installed regime. For the next decade his writings were repressed, although his poetry is essentially unpolitical. Communist authorities finally relented when they realized that Seifert's poems were circulating widely in underground journals...
Terms of Kush's contract with the Outlaws were not revealed, but the Indianapolis News reported that sources with the Colts indicated Kush will receive $1 million in the five-year pact...