Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Negotiations over the contract to replace a three-year pact that recently expired resumed last week following a brief one-day strike and sit-in by workers. Those actions capped off months of delays and disagreements between Harvard and Local 26 of the International Hotel, Restaurant--and Bartenders Union, which represents the dining hall workers and is one of the most militant of the unions at the University...
...Christian Democrats agree on "a three-year government" to bring some stability to the political process. Other parties, he added, would be welcome to join. His opponents immediately wondered aloud why stability was suddenly so important to the Socialist leader, but others supported the idea. A three-year pact, wrote the right-of-center Il Giornale, "would permit an exit from the vagueness of electoral rhetoric, to confront the programs and delineate the things to be done." A three-year government would also set a postwar record...
...loss of Canton for emergency landings is not as dangerous as it sounds, since planes flying into the area always carry enough excess fuel to divert to another city if Hong Kong airport is closed. Significantly, Peking stopped short of terminating the 1980 Sino-U.S. aviation pact and unilaterally banning Pan Am from the mainland, a move that would have virtually forced retaliation against CAAC flights...
...Glenn's fixation on detail occurred during the 1979 debate over the SALT II treaty. Jimmy Carter viewed the treaty as indispensable to further political initiatives with the Soviets and told Glenn so. Glenn focused on verification. He was convinced that the U.S. could not monitor the pact because of the loss of two tracking stations in Iran and the knowledge that the U.S. reconnaissance satellite had temporarily failed...
...Italy is intolerable and Beate refuses to sleep with him-but he is seeking ways to survive. Beate, on the other hand, wants to "carry despair to its logical conclusion, suicide." Their encounter, Lucio observes, had not been love, but death at first sight. Beate yearns for a suicide pact with Lucio that would be modeled on what she regards as an ideal death: Heinrich von Kleist's double suicide with his friend Henriette...