Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reynolds Tobacco, the dream has come true in an agreement signed last week in Peking. The pact calls for Reynolds and China to contribute $10 million each to set up a joint venture that will build a factory in the southern Chinese city of Xiamen and produce the first Sino-American cigarette. The new brand, as yet unnamed, will be a blend of American and Chinese tobaccos. Lester Pullen, president of Reynolds' international tobacco division, admitted that the cigarette must be good to satisfy Chinese smokers. Said he: "In their tastes, the Chinese are comparable to Europeans, especially...
...superpowers hold pistols to each other's heads; they forgo large-scale defenses to make their suicide pact more credible, but they continue to proliferate and refine their offensive weapons. In so doing they put their arsenals on hair trigger; the danger grows that in a crisis or an accident, one or both fingers could twitch...
...Cuba and North Korea, not unexpectedly, last week joined the boycott. But Rumania broke ranks with the Warsaw Pact and said that it would send its athletes to Los Angeles...
...with a loss of 269 lives, and who defended the Soviet action four days later in Pravda; "in the line of duty," the customary phrase for a military officer; in East Germany, where he had just been assigned as a representative of the Soviet marshal commanding the Warsaw Pact forces, an apparent demotion that fueled speculation about a possible purge of those involved in the K.A.L. incident...
Threatened animals are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES treaty. The pact, which took effect in 1975, has 87 signatories. The U.S. has two additional umbrellas: the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which bars the import of animals or plants on an "endangered" or "threatened" list, and the 1900 Lacey Act, which forbids the entry of plants or animals taken illegally out of another country...