Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warning led many people to predict that the Faculty would do more than put the most deeply involved demonstrators on probation. That the Faculty opted for a moderate punishment is ample evidence that a concerted effort was made to understand the exacerbated felings of the anti-war student bloc at Harvard...
...months ago and withdrew from the military side of the alliance, NATO defenses were visibly weakened-if only by the loss of France's 72,000-man contingent, based in Germany. Yet NATO still remains strong enough to meet any challenge. To counteract the 1,300,000 Soviet-bloc troops deployed through Eastern Europe. NATO maintains an army of 2,500,000 men, organized into ground and air divisions based at NATO installations extending in a crescent from the northern tip of Norway down through Britain and Italy and over to Greece and Turkey...
Vortex of Battle. The Senate is the vortex of the trade battle because it must ratify agreements on grains and chemicals before the Kennedy Round tariff cuts can be implemented. Aware of this, a high-tariff bloc, concerned over competition from rising imports, got congressional attention first with measures designed to bypass the Round's tariff cuts, averaging 35%, with a system of stricter quotas on goods allowed into...
...town of Higueras. Informed of his capture, army leaders in La Paz, the capital, pondered what to do with him. Since Bolivia has no death penalty, Che, at worst, would go off to prison-perhaps only after a long, noisy trial, a propaganda outcry from the whole Communist bloc and the threat that other guerrillas might streak into Bolivia and make a cause of him. The next day, orders came down to Higueras to execute Che. He was shot two hours later...
...even more violent than Mao Tse-tung's. In contrast with Castro, Che was not afraid to put his theories above politics. In 1965, at a time when Castro was trying to draw closer to Moscow, Che went barnstorming around Africa and Asia, drumming up support for a bloc of small socialist countries to counteract the "imperialism of large socialist countries." After Che's return to Havana, the two revolutionaries had a falling-out and decided to go their separate ways. Che then dropped out of sight, and seven months later Castro announced that he had gone...