Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which Russia might be persuaded to unify Germany, all signs indicated that Khrushchev has no intention of giving up control of his half. Communist economic blueprints under the new seven-year plan point plainly to East Germany's assigned role as the industrial heart of the satellite bloc...
...addition to East Germany's assigned role as primary producer of chemicals in Communist Europe (TIME, Dec. 8), it has now been tapped as "coordinator" of all bloc chemical production, responsible for boosting the area's chemical output fivefold by 1965. An array of interlocking agreements with Czechoslovakia, Hungary and the other satellites assigns East Germany responsibility for large deliveries of diesel and electric motors, power-station equipment and motor vehicles in exchange for raw materials...
Cool Heels. Banda's guile is equally evident in his dealings with East and West. After a flurry of deals last year with the Soviet-bloc nations he is now slipping from their deadly embrace. A Red Chinese delegation has cooled its heels for a month in Colombo trying to arrange a new rice-for-rubber barter, after the other one worked out badly. Of 16 ambitious projects to be set up with Soviet Russian aid, only one-a sugar factory-is beyond the planning stage. Banda's smiles are currently lavished on the U.S. aid missions, which...
...final vote on the Hawaii statehood bill, passed overwhelmingly (76-15) by the Senate the day before. Now, after 59 years of territorial status, 40 of them spent waiting impatiently for statehood, Hawaii was on its way. For years congressional opposition had been overpowering, for the pivotal Southern bloc of Democrats never relished the idea of a new state whose population and character was so seemingly alien-and so Republican to boot. It looked dark for Hawaii last year, too, when Delegate Burns deliberately stepped aside to let Alaska make its big statehood pitch alone; he was berated at home...
...Kassem denounce not the West but Nasser. And to hear the Communists, rather than the Western powers, accused of dividing the Arab nation was a welcome change. Yet those who now instinctively saw in Nasser a welcome new ally overlooked his own heavy and continuing dependence on the Soviet bloc. London's conservative Daily Telegraph noted the irony that it was Nasser who first invited into the Middle East the Communist forces that now opposed him so effectively. But more than irony was involved. Nasser still did not rebuke Moscow, only those Arabs loyal to it. Communist countries...