Word: blocs
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Defensive Winner. In that forlorn effort, the Arabs were not without friends. At the head of the list were Russia and the rest of the Soviet bloc, which would like nothing better than to keep the Middle East in chaos, prevent it from supplying oil to the West, and drive the U.S. completely out of the area. There were also the nonaligned states, which regard Nasser as one of their prophets. There was India, which never loses a chance to woo Arab support for its Kashmir dispute with Moslem Pakistan. And there were some Black African nations whose leaders feel...
...passageway. Egypt's economy is a shambles, and the war has gravely worsened it. The nation has a foreign debt of more than $1 billion, an annual trade deficit of $500 million, and more than half of its cotton crop-its principal export-is mortgaged to Communist-bloc nations to pay for past shipments of military hardware. Food is becoming increasingly scarce. The government long ago decreed three meatless days a week, has told Egyptians to eat macaroni instead of their beloved rice, and now faces the prospect of a macaroni shortage unless it can find...
Today Western Europe is the wealthiest complex of nations in the world, with a combined gross national product of $508 billion, v. the East Bloc's $443 billion. Only two former Marshall Plan members-Greece and Turkey-are still receiving U.S. economic aid, most of it in P.L. 480 food surpluses and low-interest loans. Out of the ashes of World War II, the nations of Western Europe have forged not only a Common Market but also a sense of common interest that, for all the disruptions and distractions caused today by Gaullist France, may be destined to achieve...
...When irrational and biased dissent in the U.S. and elsewhere outside the Communist bloc has reached the distorted proportions that it has, when the free condemn the protectors of the freedom they share, enjoy and abuse, and curse the resisters of totalitarian aggression (and it is irrelevant whether the aggressors are North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese or Eskimos, whether their aggression takes the form of a frontal assault, blitzkrieg, treacherous tactics or the barbarous slaughtering of innocents), and dishonor the noble flag under which millions have been and are being saved from tyranny for the fourth time this century...
...most heavily forested country, it exports paper, pulp and wood products to 90 lands. Exploiting what is believed to be Europe's largest copper fields, Finland since the end of the war has developed a booming mining and metals industry. Despite its proximity to the East bloc, 80% of Finnish trade heads west, where Britain is its best customer. Finland will thus suffer if Britain enters the Common Market without it, but the Soviets are not likely to encourage Finland to seek closer ties to the mart...