Absent any aid or a political pact, people scrape by as they have for years, sharing what little they have or sacrificing themselves for their children.
He also forged an unusual political pact with James Soong, the leader of a small opposition party who favors reunification with the mainland.
Mr. Chen also made a political pact with James Soong, who heads an opposition party that favors reunification with China.
"We express our will to form a new political pact," the plan says, "that grows from a new model for relations with the Spanish state based on freedom of association."
They would make new political pacts, this time with the Winds.
On January 7, 1971, they signed a political pact agreeing to establish a national-unity government after the March elections.
He thought that history could best be understood by looking at the small histories of anonymous people, rather than by focusing on major events such as wars and political pacts.
Those irregular armies were organized at provincial level, and assembled as leagues depending on political pacts.
This, as we all know, is a political pact, the fruit of the prevailing neoliberal ideology, in which economic justification is just an alibi.
Although ideological opposites on most issues, until recently the two men had enjoyed what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has called a political nonaggression pact.