Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effectiveness of international justice has been dealt a crippling blow by this decision, and it will take years of rebuilding before the label of White Justice can be disproved. For while the United States and Soviet representatives dissented, all the other white judges voted in a bloc against the Africans to throw the case out of court...
...Howard Worth Smith shook his head. "I don't know," he said. "Times have changed." How much they had changed became apparent in the next several hours. When the votes were counted in last week's Democratic primary, "Judge" Smith, 83, longtime leader of the conservative Southern bloc in the House of Representatives, was dispossessed of the seat he has occupied for 35 years. Senator Willis Robertson, 79, like Smith a member of the Byrd organization, was also defeated. And, in the Old Dominion that has been a family fiefdom for 40 years, Harry Flood Byrd...
...committee chairman is Democrat William Colmer of Mississippi, who, if possible, is even more conservative than Smith. Smith's defeat was, nonetheless, a traumatic shock to the House's Southern Democrats, for there is no other leader of his prestige and skill to assume captaincy of the bloc...
...West made the Kremlin seem a neutralist. True enough, the Bung himself was not a Red ("Me bow down to Moscow? Anybody who ever came near Sukarno knows he has too much ego to be a slave to anybody"). Nor was Indonesia a member of the Communist bloc. Sukarno had his own ideas. His government, he constantly proclaimed, was based on the principle of NASAKOM-the happy union of Nationalism, Religion and Communism. The world was divided into NEKOLIM (neocolonialist imperialist powers) and NEFOS (the Newly Emerging Forces that would destroy imperialism). To speed the destruction, Sukarno was building...
...them in order to relieve the bureaucratic jam. Egypt's poorly maintained air, rail and road transport systems are in a sorry state. Such basics as rice, matches and meat are scarce. The cotton crop, afflicted by a bollworm plague this year, is in hock to Soviet-bloc countries to pay for the delivery of factories, which the Egyptians manage inefficiently. In fact, there is only one thing that really works in Egypt-the Suez Canal. Because its foreign-exchange earnings are vital, the canal has been given a free hand to recruit the best men available and operate...