Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threats were not enough. In a froth of anticolonialism whipped up by the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, and with the united vote of the Soviet bloc, the General Assembly overruled its powerful Steering Committee (for the first time on a major issue) and voted to debate France's conduct in the troubled North African region of Algeria. The rebellion carried by only one vote-28 to 27*-but that one vote was enough to plunge the U.N. and France into dramatic antagonism...
...issues, however, have produced such unanimity in French politics as the question on which the French walkout was based. The Afro-Asian bloc in the UN has always considered Algeria as fruitful ground for anti-colonial agitation. The French, on the other hand, have incorporated Algeria into Greater France, granting its citizens the same rights as those of other Departments When the anti-colonial nations attempted to bring up the Algerian question at an Assembly meeting, the French exited, claiming the debate would infringe upon the internal affairs of their country...
...walkout, however, has far wider repercussions, whether or not the French carry out their threat not to return. France's closest political and military ties have always been with the West and NATO. The worldwide prestige of the NATO bloc is the responsibility of each member of the organization. By quitting the Assembly, the French delegation may have done irreparable damage to the West's prestige...
...coming on, and the vats of France were already sloshing full of a billion-liter surplus of wine. The country was in danger of becoming one vast cavern of undrunk wine. Last week, sensitive to the pressure of the winegrowers, who are France's most powerful farm bloc, the government set out to soak up the surplus...
After 18 days without a government, Indonesia got a new Premier to replace Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo, whose Red-supported Nationalists fell afoul of the Indonesian army. In came Burhanuddin Harahap, 38, lawyer and onetime guerrilla who headed the Masjumi bloc in Parliament, Indonesia's strongest Moslem (and antiCommunist) party. Ignoring the discredited Nationalists, Harahap patched together a coalition of twelve other parties, and will provide a caretaker regime until Sept. 29, when Indonesians go to the polls for their first national election since becoming a nation six years...