Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter Ulbricht, goateed leader of the most escaped-from satellite in the Soviet bloc, it was a week of rare triumph. Arriving in Egypt for his first official visit outside the Iron Curtain, the East German President was greeted at the Cairo railroad station by Nasser, a 21-gun salute, 23 non-Western ambassadors and 20,000 students and workers chanting a heartwarming slogan: "America, withdraw your money for Israel or Nasser will step...
...slim, however, because any committee finding must be unanimous; moreover, a decision would not bind any nation to go along. Yet the weight of majority opinion is expected to influence some vacillating nations to adopt one system or another, and Western Europe is so sharply split that the Soviet bloc will probably tip the Vienna vote...
...other countries that aim to begin color transmission within two years are Britain, which leans strongly to the U.S. system, and Germany, which naturally favors its own system.) France sent Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte to Moscow in January, accompanied by technicians who demonstrated the French system. If the Soviet bloc goes France's way-perhaps under the influence of France's recent trade concessions-a substantial part of the world electronics market will be hitched to the inward-looking Europe so dear to Charles de Gaulle. Fighting hard to prevent this, RCA has sent a mobile color...
Miners v. Users. The American Mining Congress, backed by the potent Western "mining bloc" in the U.S. Congress, is lobbying hard to retain silver coinage. But to ease the shortage, it recommends a reduction in the silver content from 90% to about 33%; that would keep the Government in the market as a big buyer and at least prevent the price from going any lower. On the other side are the silver users, backed by Congressmen from the industrial East. They are urging the U.S. to eliminate silver completely from new coins and melt down its old coins; they figure...
...Minh. The U.S. has some strong bargaining points; ever since Vietnam has been split up, the North has suffered from agricultural shortages which can only be remedied by drawing on the giant rice fields in the South. Furthermore, Ho has not yet aligned himself with the Peking Communist bloc, and there is evidence that he might welcome the chance to end the war and use U.S. aid to make his nation less dependent on a threatening China...