Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States is gradually learning to accept the changes of leadership in the Soviet Union, the break of solidarity among Communist nations, and the liberalization within the Communist bloc, Galbraith said...
...litany" of the last generation in foreign policy can still be heard. He used as proof a speech by Thomas Mann, former Under Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, which alludes to the "implacable conflict" with the Communists and denies the existence of pluralism in the Communist bloc...
...begun to improve many goods. Managers have been ordered to produce goods that the domestic market needs and foreigners will buy. Some Czech factories had their state subsidies slashed and were told to fend for themselves in the market-either to make a profit or face bankruptcy. The Eastern bloc is aware that it will have to continue improving quality if it hopes to increase its trade with the West but finds it difficult to give incentive and motivation to workers in socialized industries. No one is better aware of the great need for higher quality than the Communists themselves...
...Must." The Negro-bloc vote was also felt in Detroit, where Negro Minister Nicholas Hood, 42, a member of Detroit's N.A.A.C.P. Board of Directors, was elected to the city's all-white nine-man common council. Hood was not the first Negro ever to be elected to the council, but his election was considered a "must" by much of Detroit's white community, which feared that unless the city's nearly 500,000 Negroes had some representation in the municipal government, racially tense Detroit might ignite. Hood had a powerful helping hand from Detroit...
...Beyond Anti-Colonialism. The erosion of Afro-Asian solidarity is best indicated at the United Nations, where bloc conferences-once the gaudiest of attractions in the General Assembly-are now infrequent. "You can still get what amounts to a bloc vote, on issues like Angola and South Africa," says...