Word: allowable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...highly ambiguous language of the agreement includes a promise that each government "will support the defense system of the other" and "will make compatible their respective defense policies in areas of mutual interest." No one seems sure just what that means-which is probably the intent. The agreement will allow the U.S. to continue to use three airbases in Spain (at Saragossa, Moron and Torrejón) and a Polaris submarine and Mediterranean fleet-support base at Rota. The bases are manned by 10,000 U.S. servicemen. In return, the U.S. will provide Franco with at least $300 million worth...
...time was at the Rapallo Conference of 1922, at which the Weimar Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union reached a rapprochement. More significant, the infamous (and short-lived) secret pact engineered by Molotov and Ribbentrop in 1939 was called a "nonaggression pact," but its main consequence was to allow Germany to attack Poland, thus plunging the world into...
...together into an organization whose sole goal is to keep the ballot away from women. "We can't risk destroying the man's role in the world," says the president of the League of Swiss Women Against Suffrage. "We must give him a task to perform and allow him to be chivalrous...
...Corps, South Viet Nam's northernmost military region. Four divisions are in the area and three more remain poised just above the Demilitarized Zone. Their chief mission is to entice main-force U.S. and ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) units into the north, which would allow Communist guerrillas more freedom to maneuver in the rest of the country...
...pride, the pleasure of being governor, and perhaps a sense of duty have motivated him to try for a third term in office, but when he retires to his ranch in northern Arkansas, his unique position within the state-a blend of aristocrat, philanthropist, business leader, and politician-should allow him to exert his presence long after he is governor...