Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making friends in Eastern Europe they would create the relaxed atmosphere in which divided Germany might someday be able to unite. At the outset of the Ostpolitik, the mood in Europe was one of detente. The Soviets seemed willing enough to let Charles de Gaulle traipse around the East bloc and talk about bridge building. But it was quite another thing when West German diplomats and industrialists began arriving with the sort of offers that tempted Eastern bloc countries to look suddenly Westward. Rumania asserted its inde pendence from Moscow by trading ambassadors with Bonn; Hungary was toying with...
...political dealings with the Communist countries in Eastern Europe, a rigid cold war stance that suited the Krem lin's own aims well. Then in came the Grand Coalition, whose Foreign Minister, Willy Brandt, initiated the radical policy of attempting to establish diplomatic relations with the East bloc...
...foreign currencies to buy sterling in order to keep the pound from falling too far below its $2.40 official price in foreign exchange markets. By midyear, British reserves had shrunk to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount of pounds held by individuals and central banks in the sterling bloc alone. With huge liabilities to many other countries as well, Britain was technically insolvent...
...NATO planners, the new situation is fraught with uncertainties. They fear that a Soviet attack on Rumania might spark widespread uprisings in the East bloc that could spill over into a NATO area. The West Germans are most concerned of all. Though most people find it unthinkable that the Soviets would risk the start of World War III by attacking a NATO member, the West Germans nonetheless worry that the Soviet leaders might try to intimidate them with a further show of force that could, perhaps by accident, turn into an invasion. Reports of Soviet tactical nuclear missiles in Czechoslovakia...
...anarchists, representing the dissatisfied, the disgruntled and the dyspeptic of 37 nations, had convened for their third postwar conference. On their agenda were such burning issues as "Anarchism v. Marxism in the 20th Century" and "The Perspective for Practical Anarchist Expansion in the Imperialist Bloc." The anarchists made the most of the issues. Under their red and black flags, Robert's Rules of Disorder prevailed, and arguments flared into name-calling and an unending flood of combative press releases...