Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the money, $1.17 billion, goes for military assistance. Three-fourths of that amount is earmarked for the eleven countries that border the Communist bloc in "the great arc from Greece to Korea": Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Laos, South Viet Nam, Formosa, the Philippines, and South Korea. An additional $369 million in "supporting assistance" is to be allocated to help maintain economic stability in the countries that the U.S. is aiding militarily; of that amount, 88% would go to South Viet Nam, Laos, Korea and Jordan. More than $500 million of the military and supporting assistance would...
Little wonder, for since they were driven out of Stanleyville two months ago, the rebels have become the delighted recipients of a mountain of military equipment, smuggled in at great expense by their friends in Peking, Moscow, and the radical African bloc. "Yes, we're aiding the Congolese insurgents," admitted Algeria's President Ahmed ben Bella last week. "We are doing our duty toward the Congo and Africa...
...SYRIA had been promised $193 million from the Communist bloc, $150 million from Russia alone. But all but $15 million of that was proffered prior to the nation's fling at union with Egypt from 1958 to 1961. The satellites built a number of small projects: cement plants, sugar refineries, a grain elevator and an airfield. But the Russians have been foot-dragging on their own big projects for two chemical factories and a railroad as Syria's manifest political instability (18 governments in 15 years) dawned on them, and completion of the Russian projects is still years...
...IRAQ and Moscow have equally disappointed each other. Little of the $184 million in Soviet credits (bloc countries have put up another $34 million) has been used, despite grandiose plans for a 60,000-ton steel plant. A telephone exchange and a broadcasting station are successfully in operation, but of a dozen other plants promised, only a shoe factory and a food processing plant have been built, and the latter is having what is euphemistically described as "operating difficulties." The Soviets blame the Iraqis for procrastination and noncooperation. The Iraqis blame poor Soviet engineering standards, citing as an example...
Known as the Henryk Tomaszewski troupe, after its director-producer and leading actor, the ten-year-old company is actually considered avant-garde in Poland-though it is ideologically safe enough to be permitted extensive tours outside the Communist bloc. Despite its considerable success in other European countries, the fundamental trouble, for U.S. theatergoers, is that Poland is just too too off-Broadway. At any rate, the program is saturated with all the fashionably despairing notions that stir tempests in the espresso cups of Greenwich Village coffeehouses. The angst comes in all flavors and includes Everyman's thwarted desire...