Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cracow toward the Czechoslovak border, and Western military attachés and diplomats were suddenly forbidden to travel outside the capital. Another Soviet force was reported heading from Dresden in East Germany toward Czechoslovakia, whose swift-paced "democratization" has lately alarmed Moscow and hard-lining members of the Eastern bloc...
Sundering the Bloc. Práce was most likely correct. Any Soviet attack on Czechoslovakia à la Hungary 1956 would have horrendous repercussions for the Kremlin's foreign policy. It would shatter the carefully cultivated détente Russia has been building with Western Europe. It would sunder the Communist bloc, nearly all of whose members have embraced "polycentrism" as the correct philosophy for relations between Communist countries and Russia. It would make impossible the conference of Communist parties that Russia hopes to convene this year. Nor would it be a military Cakewalk. Since Russian troops left...
...DEMOCRATICALLY elected Board, with the franchise extended to students and Faculty, would encourage the examination of these University issues. Since only about 30,000 alumni vote in an Overseers' election, the largest voting bloc would be in Cambridge. Candidates for the Board would be campaigning here on the issues, instead of getting elected on the basis of a biography...
...have in the past 18 months won 60 seats in state parliaments, has already done serious harm to West Germany. The Soviet Union uses the specter of a new Hitler as a pretext for blocking West Germany's attempts to bring about a reconciliation with the East bloc. Walter Ulbricht's East German regime has cited the Nazi danger as an excuse for tampering with Allied guarantees of access to West Berlin. At home, though the National Democrats poll only a relatively small percentage of votes, they stir up trouble out of proportion to their numbers because...
...Russians. At week's end, those who did come were reported close to an agreement on an agenda and a date for a Communist summit conference in Moscow that the Kremlin has been promoting for years. The leaders had trouble, however, disguising the fact that most of the bloc will welcome such an event with a lack of enthusiasm bordering on dismay...