Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief for the Organization of American States will probably be made in an atmosphere of sweet compromise next January. But the bitter battles over Ritter have been a testing ground for the small member-states of the Western Hemisphere. They may have welded themselves into a bloc which could achieve veto power over OAS policy, especially if more Carribean states join. Jamaica reportedly is moving to join the OAS. It will add one more to this new force in hemisphere politics...
...that most effective of democracy's equalizers, the voting booth, the Negro is now voting black with an assertiveness that has impelled many white politicians to assess with new respect the black bloc's gathering strength. Some of the Negro's political leaders have said that what they want is something like the Irish Power that has been evident in Boston or the Jewish Power that has shown itself in New York City. By now, almost everyone in the U.S. knows that Gary, Ind., and Cleveland installed Negro mayors last month. Negro bloc voting was indispensable...
...Urban League goal for all of its 57 years. He favors the formation of Negro unions and other organizations, partly to "give the Negro a sense of security that he can compete and organize," but mainly for the "mobilization of Negro political and economic resources into a significant bloc to achieve goals." He draws an elemental difference between the two opposing approaches to Black Power: "Where the builders differ from the burners is that we want to win victories within the framework of the system." Martin Luther King Jr., who began by counseling his people to "love your enemies, bless...
...mellowing but still Marxist Eastern Europe, nothing has succeeded quite so well as one eminently collective enterprise: gambling. With government takes from legal wagering in the eight Comecon countries running well beyond $1 billion a year, betting is becoming one of the biggest businesses in the bloc...
...keep Tate from eroding that margin. Specter, who is Jewish, refused to take a stand on a bill that would divert $26 million in state cigarette taxes to Catholic schools, and Tate-tirelessly proclaiming his card-carrying membership in the city's 400,000-strong Catholic voting bloc-blew sanctified smoke rings around...