Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take further steps against Russians in China. They hardly needed an excuse. The two governments are denouncing each other with such frequency-and often taking action to match the denunciations-that the Sino-Soviet rift has become a fact of history far more firmly established than the Sino-Soviet bloc ever was. Last week, for example, a meeting of Soviet trade unions branded Mao Tse-tung as "chauvinist, nationalist, anti-Leninist, anti-working class and anti-people." Peking replied that it would "sweep away all vermin, be it U.S. imperialism or Soviet revisionism." The feud has virtually evaporated all ties...
West Germany's new policy of establishing diplomatic relations with the east-bloc nations is having amazing success. This week Rumania will become the first Eastern European nation to ex, change ambassadors with Bonn. Hungary and Bulgaria are expected to follow Rumania's example within the next few months, and promising negotiations also are under way with Czechoslova-w rn?1-8 alarms East German Boss Walter Ulbncht, 73, who fears that West German presence in the East might iso ate his own unlovely Stalinist regime Jlbricht has done his best to blunt the Bonn drive. His ambassadors...
Bypassing Ulbricht. Kiesinger's words represent quite a switch in Bonn policy, which up to now has barred normal diplomatic relations with the East-bloc countries until they first consent to German reunification. That pol icy, of course, got nowhere. Kiesinger and his coalition government realize that reunification is a long way off as matters now stand, particularly in the face of the intransigence of East Germany's old Stalinist, Walter Ulbricht. By making new moves to win the confidence of the East, they are bypassing East Germany and hoping that the Eastern bloc, once reassured that Germany...
...remain skeptical of West German intentions. De Gaulle offered to instruct French ambassadors in Eastern European capitals to use their influence to convince the Poles, Czechs and everyone else that the Germans have indeed reformed. Furthermore, De Gaulle and Kiesinger agreed to coordinate their economic policies regarding the Eastern bloc...
...rose from a nondescript post as a translator for a Russian-East German shipping control board, was named VEB's general director. Zimmermann cast aside a good many Communist shibboleths. Under him, East Germany has modernized shipyards and ports, built mechanized ships, gained an expanding share of East-bloc shipping...