Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether to hold a giant summit meeting of Communist parties, Moscow's chief proposal at the meeting. When both promises were broken, Ceausescu angrily ordered his men to walk out of the Budapest meeting and fly home. He thus brought on the most serious break in the Soviet bloc since Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito defected from the Comintern just 20 years...
...bombing is not going to cripple Hanoi permanently, any more than it has hobbled its present war-effort. Communist bloc aid will spur Hanoi's industrial recovery. The regime demonstrated its ability to raise itself by the bootstraps after it took control of the war-ravished North...
Spong, who lives in Portsmouth, rose to prominence as the leader of the urban bloc in Virginia's General Assembly. For 30 years the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd's Organization dominated the state's politics, with the only opposition coming from the small Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But within the last 10 years a band of moderates, consisting of representatives from Richmond, the urban areas of Northern Virginia, and Tidewater cities like Norfolk and Portsmouth has sprung up between the two extremes in the party...
ALTHOUGH Spong has voted with the Southern bloc on tactical moves concerned with the civil rights bill now pending in the Senate, he hopes to cast the South's first vote for passage of a civil rights measure, but only if the open housing provision is deleted from the bill...
However amicable this week's talks may be on the surface, they are not geared to bring the various parties and their views any closer together. Whatever their quarrels, though, the Communists can still reunite solidly on one point: condemnation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Indeed, Soviet bloc party chiefs who met in Prague last week to celebrate Czechoslovakia's 20th year under Communism spoke ominously of considering in Budapest "a joint program of action in the struggle against imperialism." That, in Communist parlance, can only mean some new effort by Russia and Eastern Europe to promote...