This pact contained a secret protocol defining the prospective partition of Eastern Europe between the two great powers.

After yesterday's agreement, both sides said the pact contained several important gains for them.

Steinberg had a year to go on his contract in New England, worth about $350,000, but he said the pact contained clauses to allow him to escape.

The pact contained an explicit provision (Article 5) stating that it did not concern relations with the Soviet Union.

That pact "does not contain an interest arbitration clause that permits an arbitrator to rewrite the agreement," the lawsuit states.

The pact also contains a few new features allowing G.M. to continue buying some brakes and brake parts from independent, nonunion outside suppliers.

These pacts usually require payment in advance and contain built-in rent increases.

The pacts often contain arcane rules, Mr. Koopmann said, in an effort to prevent third parties from benefiting from them.

He assured Scavenius that the pact contained neither "political or other obligations" (i.e., going to war with the USSR).

The Clinton Administration's biggest problem in promoting the North American Free Trade Agreement is that the seven-inch-thick pact contains something to offend almost anyone.