Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Without ever accepting any kind of dependency, [I would] persuade the states along the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees to form a political, economic and strategic bloc; to establish this organization as one of the three world powers and, should it become necessary, as the arbiter...
...form a loose association to be called the Asian and Pacific Council. Eschewing a formal treaty, ASPAC's founders modestly limited their aims to consultation on economic and cultural matters. But it was the kind of friendly grouping that could develop into a new Asian and Pacific bloc in the United Nations. The foreign ministers will assemble again next year in Bangkok. Meanwhile, committees will weigh the feasibility of such cooperative ventures as a common commodities and fertilizer bank and a pool of technicians to be shared among the nine...
...that the ministers were opposed to a settlement: they encouraged all "initiatives" of any NATO nation to improve East-West relationships. At the same time, however, even Couve de Murville agreed with Secretary of State Rusk that it is still too early for outright accommodation between the two opposing blocs. There is an obvious interest in moving toward peace with Russia, said Rusk, but "the main ingredient is our own solidarity." For one thing, the West itself was not yet united on the terms for a settlement in Europe. For another, NATO's defense machinery must be kept oiled...
...Incomex '66 (for International Computer Exhibition '66), a month-long display of the wares of 15 Western computer makers in Prague's Park of Culture. To study the largest array of computers ever assembled in the East, politicians and problem solvers flocked from all over the bloc...
...capitalistic competition amused the Communists, but they could understand it. The East bloc is at least five years behind the West in computer technology and, until the gap is closed, intends to order equipment from the West. Czechoslovakia alone has earmarked $145 million for computer purchases...