Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively tidy equation. The new math of the U.N. involved sets and subsets incomprehensible to minds raised in the school of Big Power politics. At the same time, the cold war had also changed. Said Dean Rusk: "The cobweb syndrome, the illusion that one nation or a bloc of nations could, by coercion, weave the world into a single pattern, is fading into limbo...
...sealing the borders, Hoare planned to end the flood of Communist-bloc arms pouring into the Congo. Going the other way were picked bands of Simbas wearing their monkey-skin headdresses. Three weeks later they would return, clad in a motley array of khaki uniforms and armed with the weapons they had been taught to use in a crash program officered by Algerian "volunteers...
...negotiations are piquant because Russia has warned Austria not to join the Common Market-under terms of the 1955 treaty that ended the Soviet occupation-and because Austria already belongs to a rival trade bloc, the European Free Trade Association. Austria depends on the Common Market for 50% of its trade (v. 18% with EFTA), and feels that its prosperity is endangered by the Market's common tariff barrier. Says Austrian National Bank President Reinhard Kamitz, a prime architect of Austria's economic revival: "As long as we do not try for full membership, we will...
Traditional sword dancers, precisely terraced rice paddies, and a shot of a misty Chinese village at dawn, sent ohh-ing intakes of breath throughout the house. Mao appeared on the screen, and some of his U.S. fans--sitting in a bloc on the right side of the theatre--applauded, while a half dozen Chinese graduate students--conspicuously on the left--shhhhed loudly...
Chorus of Critics. At Nouakchott, the former French bloc went out of its way to condemn "certain states, notably Ghana, which welcome subversive agents and organize training camps on their territories." Two of Nkrumah's neighbors accuse him of "interference in their internal affairs," a third recently captured a band of Nkrumah-trained guerrillas; and for the past five years little Togo has had all it could do to keep Nkrumah from annexing it. After a Nkrumah-sponsored student demonstration outside the Nigerian High Commission in Accra this month, the Prime Minister of Africa's most populous nation...