Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relax tensions, possibly even including cancellation of the U.S. embargo on nonstrategic trade with the Chinese. When a high-powered West German consortium recently notified Washington that it had contracted to build (on credit) big, up-to-date steel plants in Szechwan province, the Administration made no attempt to block the project...
...know a boy who was never blue, now he's living in cell block...
...paper signed by 198 East-Asian scholars, the United States was urged to cease using its influence to block admission of Peking to the United Nations, and to announce its willingness to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic...
...Hartke first incurred Johnson's anger last year when he dared oppose a presidential appointment. It was Hartke who drafted the letter signed in January by 15 Senators protesting U.S. resumption of the bombing of North Viet Nam. Last week the Senator again ired L.B.J. by trying to block the Administration's proposal to boost telephone taxes...
Though the twelve major ministries are again likely to be more or less evenly divided along party lines, Klaus will probably pry Socialist Christian Broda out of the Justice Ministry, which has become a stumbling block for red-black cooperation. Furthermore, Klaus hopes to revitalize Parliament, which had become little more than a rubber-stamp assembly, receiving bills only after the Cabinet had put them in all but final shape. With a majority of his own, Klaus intends to use Parliament to shape his legislative program. Tops on his list: a speedup of negotiations for Austria's associate membership...