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...after months of talk, the conferees finally hammered out agreement on 17 clauses, got down to the bedrock details of inspection and control, e.g., how many foreign inspection teams could be stationed on Russian soil, how freely could they move in their investigations? The West demanded 20 inspections a year to check on suspicious earth movements, but Russia insisted three were enough. "You cannot sneak spies into our bedroom,'' cried Nikita Khrushchev. In one compromise after another, the U.S. agreed to 17, then twelve, in hope of reaching agreement. The U.S. even consented to let Soviet scientists examine...
...clouded the Detroit scene was the question of whether Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers would cripple the industry with a strike if no new wage agreements have been reached when the present contract expires Aug. 31. So far, the talks have not yet settled down to the bedrock issues of wages, pensions and supplemental unemployment benefits. The only company proposal-a form of profit sharing that the U.A.W. termed "interesting"-has come from American Motors...
...century, it condemned socialism as immoral but supported trade unions and higher wages, state regulation of industry and broader distribution of property and wealth. Brought up to date 40 years later by Pope Pius XI, it is the starting point of modern Catholic social thought, and the ideological bedrock on which today's huge Christian Democratic parties in Italy, Germany and Belgium are founded...
...verbiage, the sociological generalization, the psychological sleight-of-hand." But verbiage, enchanted with its own cleverness, chokes Mayer's book, and sociological and psychological observations--some of them rather disputable, to say the least--make up 90 percent by weight of his attempt to get down to bedrock...
Ingrained Taboo. For generations, the world looked on the Monroe Doctrine as bedrock U.S. foreign policy. But the U.S. itself saw a need for supplementing the unilateral Monroe Doctrine with a system of hemispheric collective security. The result was the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, better known as the Rio Pact, which provides that "an armed attack by any State against any American State shall be considered an attack against all the American States." The principle of inter-American collective security against aggression was reaffirmed in the charter of the Organization of American States, drawn up at Bogota...