Word: pacts
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...played a role in Korea. It played a decisive role in the 1956 crisis in Suez, in calling Khrushchev's bluff and keeping him out of that area. It also played a decisive role in 1959 in Berlin, when Khrushchev was threatening to pull out of the Four-Power pact. It played a role in Cuba, of course, but a different kind of role, because that was when everything, including the presidency, changed. I'll come to that...
...been spotted at a plant in Pakistan where nuclear weapons were being developed. Since then, the Chinese have made several verbal commitments not to help other countries build nuclear weapons. These assurances were enough to satisfy the Reagan Administration. Unless both the Senate and the House reject the pact, it will go into effect after 90 days...
...trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number of border attacks and acts of sabotage. Its present strength is estimated to be about 7,000 armed men, but it suffered a severe setback last year when South Africa and Mozambique signed a nonaggression pact, forcing the A.N.C. to abandon its guerrilla camps in southern Mozambique. More recently, the South African army staged a lightning raid on what it claimed was an A.N.C. installation in Botswana, killing twelve people...
...U.A.W. executive board approved the Saturn contract last week with only a few revisions. One change was a new requirement that anyone Saturn hired who was a union member and a current or former GM employee would be guaranteed lifetime job security. U.A.W. President Owen Beiber praised the pact. Said he: "For the first time in history, our union will have a great deal of input upon how the plant is operated...
...union's action could profoundly affect the entire steel industry. Earlier this year, steelmakers abandoned their 29-year tradition of negotiating one pact for all American workers. With labor contracts for five major steel manufacturers due to expire next July, the Wheeling settlement could become a trendsetter for an industry that has grown unaccustomed to strikes. Said William T. Hogan, a steel-industry expert and an economics professor at Fordham University: "This is historic, a benchmark. The outcome will be of great importance for both the companies and the union...