Word: pacts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SEQOUL, South Korea- Foreign Minister Han Sung- joo will visit Washington next week to discuss North Korea's withdrawl from an international nuclear control pact, officials said yesterday...
WHAT WAS A MAN TO DO? BRIAN MULRONEY, 53, had twice led his Progressive Conservative Party to victory, introduced a history-making free-trade pact with the U.S., and imposed an economically sound 7% value-added sales tax. But Canada remained mired in a deep economic recession, and a messy constitutional wrangle with Quebec lingered unresolved. Not since August 1990 had Mulroney's approval ratings passed 20%, and chances of winning a fall election seemed remote. Eight and a half years into the job, the Prime Minister said he would step aside in favor of a fresh face to lead...
Broken and pitiful, perhaps. But Honecker was one of the hardest of the hard-liners who ruled the Soviet bloc before communism collapsed. As East | Germany's security chief, he supervised construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. He supported the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of neighboring Czechoslovakia. And newly publicized Kremlin documents show that Honecker wanted to do the same against Poland. A letter from Honecker to Brezhnev on Nov. 26, 1980, denounced the Solidarity movement and appealed for a Warsaw Pact invasion to prevent "the death of Socialist Poland." Brezhnev, embroiled in Afghanistan, refused -- a decision that...
...feds got involved in supervising the Teamsters following a 1989 settlement of a racketeering suit that charged the union's leadership with having a "devil's pact" with the Mob. The record spoke for itself. Four of the union's past seven presidents had been indicted on criminal charges; three of them (including Hoffa) went to prison. To avoid a government-imposed trusteeship, the Teamsters agreed to allow the 1.6 million members to freely elect their president. In the past, the boss had always been handpicked by a coterie of top brass...
...Germany's neighbors had been disturbed by the tide of violence, they could take some satisfaction in Bonn's expeditious treatment of the Maastricht treaty. The Bundestag ratified the pact on European union by an overwhelming 543-17. The upper house of parliament could approve the treaty as early as next week. (See related story on page...