Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential choice, Spiro Agnew. Particularly important is the fact that the heaviest concentrations of Poles are in nine key industrial states that account for 196 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.* Muskie may well be able to offset George Wallace's strong appeal to this bloc. In his acceptance speech, Muskie acquitted himself well, underscoring the need for the U.S. "to build a peace, to heal our country...
...wants to be assured of several things before it withdraws its army. The Russians insist that the old-line cad res be kept in their jobs in the party and government. They want press freedoms curtailed. They want guarantees that Czechoslovakia's economy will remain oriented toward the Soviet bloc...
Czechoslovakia runs like a dagger from Europe into the Soviet Union and sits next door to East Germany, the shield of the Soviet bloc's de fense system. In a sense, Dubcek's growing unruliness-and the invasion of his country to bring it back in line-was a near-domestic issue for Moscow, not an international one. This was all the truer because, inside Russia, the youth and intellectuals-among others-seemed electrified by the spectacle of Czechoslovak reform...
...expected to find a clique of dissidents in Dubcek's entourage through whom they could work for subversion. Dubcek. however, was able to draw the line so clearly between the right of Czechoslovaks to run their own na tional affairs and Russia's in ternational claims as bloc lead er that just before the conference opened he won a unanimous vote of committee confidence. To the Russians' chagrin, the entire Czechoslovak delegation came to Cierna determined to render unto Moscow only what was Moscow's. Two weeks later, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht journeyed...
...executions of "Titoists" and "traitors." Fittingly, Gottwald caught a chill at Stalin's funeral in 1953 and died a few months later. An almost equally unbending Stalinist took his place: Antonin Novotny, who had been Communist boss of Prague. As the slight winds of liberalism blew throughout the East bloc following Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin, Novotny tried his best to ward them off. Even so, the pressure for change built up. Art, especially literature and film making, experienced an underground renaissance. Artists and students demanded freedom of expression. Industrial planners and economists asked for freer and more effective...