Word: pacts
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REINSTATED. Vyacheslav Molotov, 94, onetime Soviet Premier and Foreign Minister under Joseph Stalin who negotiated the infamous Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of 1939; to membership in the Communist Party, from which he was dropped in 1962; in Moscow. Molotov was dismissed from the party five years after losing his post-Stalin leadership positions, allegedly for belonging to a group seeking the overthrow of Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev...
...elaborate security has been the subject of a mounting feud between the L.A.P.D. and the L.A.O.O.C. The Olympic Committee has a $100 million budget, most of it tied up in individual contracts with state and local police departments. Chief Gates, however, negotiated a special clause in his $15.7 million pact, making him the final arbiter of Olympic security in the city of Los Angeles and making the L.A.O.O.C. liable for any increased costs. Last week Gates invoked the agreement and demanded more guards for the Olympic sites and Villages, a move that could hike his contract by as much...
...narrowly avoided civil war at the time of independence: the socialist party of David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, and the far more militant Herut Party, founded by Begin. The last election was so bitter that this time both sides signed a sort of clean-campaign pact. The agreement banned tomato-throwing, punching, spitting and any "incitement to violence...
...seething for months because companies such as Continental Airlines and Wilson Foods had declared bankruptcy in order to break contracts. The tactic was upheld in February by the Supreme Court, which declared that a contract can be unilaterally set aside as long as the company proves that the labor pact unduly "burdens" its prospects for recovery. The new act, however, sets up several steps that must be taken before a contract can be broken. Companies first have to bargain with unions over concessions. Then a bankruptcy judge has to determine if the unions refused the concessions without good reason...
...have inaugurated a new political style in the country," Argentine President Raul Alfonsin declared as he signed a 15-point agreement with former President María Estela (Isabelita) Martínez de PerÓn and the leaders of 14 other parties last week. The pact was another step in Alfonsín's drive to maintain national unity at a time when the country is facing an annual inflation rate of 568% and growing labor unrest. Some 400,000 miners, bus drivers, waterworks employees and metal-and grain-workers are currently demanding wage increases...