Word: afro-asian
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Hand in Hand. The Soviet Union tried hard to exploit the new balance of power. Although the Afro-Asian group may have deplored Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging behavior in the Assembly, many of the new neutralist nations, for reasons of their own, were willing to join in voting against "Western imperialism" on more than one important occasion. Where Russia once voted with only a lonely Communist bloc of nine on many resolutions, 20 and more members now found their voting plans coinciding with the Reds', though few of the new countries were Communist or even sympathetic...
Roadblock. But the chief Russian successes were negative. They sometimes found the new bloc as balky-and as divided-as the West did. On several occasions, the Soviets found their more strident proposals blocked by Afro-Asian opposition, and were forced to drop or moderate them...
...supremacy Russia, Morgenthau claimed. He these pluralisms as the variety qualities and appeals the United States has for different peoples; the of anyone to make policy that can only be confusing to an and the simultaneous of United States interests to both Western allies and the newly-emerging Afro-Asian nations...
...Another Afro-Asian "source of embar- rassment" for the Communists, Schwartz claimed, is the determination of these nations to be their own masters. "Communism can not see its victory as inevitable until each nation is under the control of the Communist Party, responsible to Moscow," Sohwarts said...
...sends 15 to 20 juniors each year to its namesake university in Germany. At Ohio's Western College for Women, launched originally as a "western" Mt. Holyoke College, students focus each year on a different area of the world, spend the summer touring it. Western also specializes in Afro-Asian students, currently has the first Sudanese woman to study...