Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed agreement, however, would have continued UAW wage restraints aimed at restoring Chrysler's long-term corporate viability. Although the pact did reinstate the Cost-of-Living-Allowances that the workers gave up in 1979, it offered no immediate wage increases, and would have made future raises contingent on increases in Chrysler profits...
...pollution. Under a deal struck with state and local governments, the oil companies will get an air-pollution credit: for every two tons of hydrocarbons they eliminate, they will be allowed one ton of sulfur-and nitrogen-oxide emissions from future drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. The pact should clear the way for developing a nearby well that could produce as many as 4,100 bbl. of oil a day. Says ARCO's offshore operations chief, Paul Rowley: "We just couldn't do it without the trade...
...decreed that Palestine should be partitioned into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Arab portion included the West Bank. In 1950, however, the territory was annexed by Jordan and in 1967 it was seized by Israel in the Six-Day War after Jordan, committed by a defense pact to help Egypt, entered the conflict. The West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation ever since...
Reagan's stance on Camp David was strongly endorsed last week by the chief architect of the Camp David pact, Jimmy Carter. The President took care to keep his defeated rival informed; Geoffrey Kemp, a Middle East specialist on the National Security Council, visited the former President's home in Plains, Ga., three times, beginning in June, to brief Carter on events in the region and the Administration's developing plans. The final visit was last Wednesday, when Kemp, accompanied by Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel, outlined the proposals that Reagan was about to present...
...great power blocs would lie. It would be in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, largely stationed in what was known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), faced the considerably weaker NATO forces ... It was in the GDR that the Warsaw Pact was even now staging maneuvers of impressive size, so large as to arouse at first strong suspicion in the West, and then to confirm, that this was really mobilization .. . The maneuvers had been notified to other powers ... Some smaller though still considerable maneuvers of the Southern Group of Soviet Forces...