Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natural order of economic geography, Communist Rumania and Bulgaria and NATO's Greece and Turkey ought to have much in common. The Iron Curtain, however, was arranged to suit Moscow's liking. Rumania and Bulgaria were assigned the role of "market gardens" within the Red bloc to feed and fuel the industrialized satellites of the Communist northern tier -East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland. It was a role that the southern ers resented, and now that a measure of independence suffuses Eastern Europe, they are reaching out to fill the Balkans' natural pattern...
...style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot down over the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam today"). To make the campers feel at home, the Hungarians set up a variety...
...December, and the five nations gathered in Bogotá-all small and relatively undiversified-could well be trying to organize a pressure group to counteract the larger individual power of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. Predictably, the five denied any such intention. "We are not trying to create an economic bloc," Frei said. "We are only trying to start something which will spread through Latin America...
Yankee Optimism. The vote was a victory for the U.S., but only of a procedural kind. Still to be decided is the question of which reforms should take place, and on this matter the delegates are as divided as ever. One European bloc, including West Germany, Italy and Holland, is in favor of creating a new kind of money, dubbed the "cru" (for composite reserve unit), which would take its place along with the dollar and the pound in the reserves of the world's central banks. Belgium and Switzerland opt instead for merely increasing the borrowing rights that...
...black Africans, the effect was traumatic. At the U.N., Ghana Ambassador F. S. Arkhurst, chairman (for July) of the bloc that speaks for much of black Africa, named a subcommittee to explore the group's next action. "It is evident that no reasonable accommodation is possible," Arkhurst warned. "Violence cannot be ruled out." In Kenya, President Jomo Kenyatta's party called for "militant and violent" revolution in South West Africa. In Tanzania, Political Exile Peter Nanyemba, the bearded, fiery-eyed chief of the South West Africa People's Organization, told newsmen that his country had no alternative...