Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCurdy said he though the decision to postpone might have been affected by the large bloc of Eastern colleges whose indoor season consists mostly of big, AAU-sanctioned meets...
...addition to improving our relations with our European allies, Rockefeller stated, increased trade with the cooperative satellites will deepen the fissures in the Communist bloc and result in better relations between the citizens of the countries involved...
...United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America last week issued an interesting little report on how much economic aid Fidel Castro has been getting from the Soviet Union and his other Red-bloc friends. Between 1959 and 1963, according to ECLA, Cuba got $700 million in grants, credits and other aid. The report did not include military assistance, which comes to almost $1 billion. When that is added in, it is enough to make Cuba the hemisphere's biggest recipient of foreign aid at $23 per capita over the five-year period. By contrast, Chile, which boasts...
Throughout the Communist bloc and in much of Africa, Lumumba's name, with its rhythm of jungle drums, is invoked by innumerable agitators. It is also borne by hundreds of streets, dozens of schools. Moscow has its Patrice Lumumba Friendship University for foreign students, Belgrade its Patrice Lumumba student home. In Castro Cuba, romantically inclined young workers find togetherness in Patrice Lumumba social centers. Last week in Kenya, the brand new $120,000 Lumumba Institute, built with Russian and Chinese money, opened its doors to "rehabilitate the minds of Kenyans from a colonial mentality and teach them...
...ready to proclaim the death of the church or to embrace the skeletonized faith of the future that some modern-day reformers propose. The World Council's Visser 't Hooft notes that the much-questioned territorial parish has proved to be a valuable instrument in Soviet-bloc countries, where it remains the one autonomous institution in a would-be omnicompetent state. Roman Catholic Layman Michael Novak warns that even if the institutional church withers away, another will eventually take its place, and that "there is no way of so organizing life that holiness and vitality are guaranteed...