Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the so-called "New Left," I am dismayed and severely stunned by its failure to speak out against the Soviet bloc during the Czech crisis. Despite their loud and somewhat successful denunciation and protest against the Vietnamese war, the vast majority of the members of the Democratic left maintained a stony silence in the aftermath of the tragedy in Prague. A truly democratic left should bring its weight to bear equally against the wrongs of the right and the extreme left. Perhaps it is surprising to learn that the Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit...
...strategy around that hope. Dixie will indeed be fought over. If the election turns out to be as close as now appears likely, a few smallish states could be decisive-north or south of the Mason-Dixon line. But it seems unlikely that the South will go as a bloc for any one candidate. Wallace will almost certainly take a few states, with Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana his surest bets. Humphrey might collect Tennessee, Arkansas and possibly Georgia, states in which Wallace and Nixon are likely to cut into each other's vote. Nixon has good prospects in Texas...
...impatient with the way Ulbricht has tried for years to block their efforts to normalize relations with Bonn. Nonetheless, he wants to force West Germany to come to some sort of understanding with East Germany before Bonn is allowed to make major diplomatic advances elsewhere in the East bloc. Thus, even though he made no progress at Karlovy Vary in trying to reverse Czechoslovakia's internal reforms, Ulbricht may well have counted the trip worthwhile, since he got Dubcek to pledge Czechoslovakia's support for his new initiatives toward West Germany. It was, to be sure, only...
...discovered that Ulbricht remained a bitter opponent. In talks at the spa of Karlovy Vary that lasted from mid-morning until 2 a.m. the next day, Ulbricht attacked Dubcek's internal reforms and warned against any shift in Prague's foreign policy that would further undermine East bloc unity (see following story). The Czechoslovaks were willing to reassure Ulbricht about their foreign policy, but they insisted that they needed no one's advice on how to manage their domestic affairs...
With that salvo, the Soviets last month launched their latest assault on what has long been pretty much a free-world preserve: seaborne trade between non-Communist nations. The Soviet merchant fleet has been ranging beyond bloc trade routes for years, of course, but never have its excursions been quite so bold. At stake in the London confrontation are shipping revenues of about $192 million a year, which are now shared by the Italian, French, West German, Dutch, Scandinavian and British lines that form the in-group serving trade routes between Europe and Australia. Last year the Russians sent...