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Troy cites the example of the United Auto Workers, which came close to splitting into two unions in the late 1950s because of this levelling effect. Ultimately, the more skilled workers gained the right to veto power over any collective bargaining pact--a necessary, but not necessarily democratic, move if meritocracy was to remain in the auto industry...
Last November the leaders of 22 nations met in Paris to sign a treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) that had been under negotiation for nearly 17 years. In July, during their summit meeting in Moscow, Bush and Gorbachev signed another pact capping a decade of START talks...
...reasonable standard, both treaties were estimable accomplishments. CFE blunted the threat of a Soviet-led blitzkrieg by the Warsaw Pact against Western Europe; START brought about a substantial reduction in MIRVed ICBMs, particularly Soviet ones, the potential instruments of a nuclear-age Pearl Harbor. However, by the time CFE was signed, the Warsaw Pact was nearly defunct, and one of its member states, East Germany, had ceased to exist -- or more to the point, had defected to NATO. Soviet divisions were pulling out of Eastern Europe for reasons that had nothing to do with CFE and everything to do with...
...land-based tactical weapons were deployed primarily to deter a Soviet- led invasion of Western Europe by offsetting the Warsaw Pact's heavy superiority in troops, tanks and artillery pieces. The need for that U.S. arsenal disappeared with the Warsaw Pact itself. Today the only targets for the weapons are in areas that have become friendly (Poland, Czechoslovakia, what was formerly East Germany). European allies supposedly protected by the weapons -- in particular, West Germans, who are understandably nervous about living amid the world's heaviest concentration of nuclear weapons -- will be delighted to get rid of them...
...supposed to help end the factional violence that has taken the lives of almost 11,000 blacks since 1984. But in the week leading up to the agreement, more than 120 people were killed in the year's worst outbreak of black-on-black violence, dashing hopes that the pact would soon bring peace to the strife-torn townships...