Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regards arms supplies, an official breakdown of a cross-section of arms taken from the Vietcong shows that ..."Only one in fifty came from the Communist bloc." (Baltimore Sun, Oct. 14, 1963.) Similarly, the Christian Science Monitor reported on Jan. 7, 1963, that "arms supplied to the Vietcong from outside the country have been negligible." The New York Times made a similar statement on Feb. 16, 1964: 'The bombing of North Vietnam could not halt the flow of supplies to the Viet Cong, particularly since most of their weapons are captured from the South Vietnamese Army...
Russia's flirtation with market mechanisms comes at a time of swift and startling economic change across the whole Communist-bloc spectrum. Hotel lobbies from Warsaw to Bucharest are jammed with Western businessmen scrambling to get into Communist markets. The "imperialist agents" are getting an interested reception in ways unthinkable a few years before. Negotiators for West Germany's giant Krupp empire last week were tidying up a deal to build plants in Poland that will be German-owned but will employ Polish labor, and Hungary and Rumania have expressed lively interest in similar permanent, paying capitalist boarders...
Pepsi-Cola is negotiating with at least four satellite countries, and both Firestone Tire & Rubber and Universal Oil Products will build major plants in Rumania. Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a new trade agreement between a Western nation and a member of the East bloc, typically for double the amount of previous trade. Last year commerce between East and West soared to $9 billion-a 100% jump in seven years. In his State of the Union address, President Johnson asked the nation to explore new ways "to increase peaceful trade" with Communist countries-a goal that...
...will have wide freedom for its own development. East Germany, too, has relegated planning to groups of enterprises, freed the prices of some raw materials, is toying with profit incentives. Hungary has intro duced a form of profit sharing, and in a deviation from Marxist ideology unique in the bloc, has imposed an interest rate of 5% on capital. To push exports, Poland has permitted three firms to set up their own foreign-trade pipelines, bypassing Warsaw to deal directly abroad. Yugoslavia long ago created a "Socialist market economy"-relatively competitive enterprise under state ownership...
Promissory Note. The Afro-Asian bloc of some 50 nations, insisting that the whole matter is only part of the exasperating cold war between East and West, demands that the deadlock be ended and the Assembly's normal processes resume. In the process they are willing to let Article 19 be bypassed and voting begin, after which Moscow might kick in a "voluntary" contribution with the clear understanding it would not be considered as payment for the "illegal" peace-keeping operations. Moscow generally favors this formula, but has not committed itself as to how much this vague promissory note...