Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans stalled for over a year, since the price cut would hurt German farm income to the point of putting as many as a million German farmers out of business and seriously endanger the C.D.U. farm-bloc vote in elections next year. But as French grain surpluses mounted, De Gaulle grew impatient, finally announced two months ago that if the wheat-price issue was not resolved by Dec. 15, France would "cease to participate" in the Common Market...
...United Nations suddenly had a brand-new trouble spot on its hands last week-the United Nations. In the U.N. Plaza on Manhattan's East Side, massed pickets brandished placards (INVADE CUBA NOW) and jeered at Communist-bloc delegates. A knife-toting woman tried to claw her way inside. Three demonstrators shinnied up a flag pole and hauled down the Soviet flag...
...financed-presumably through the Security Council, where both nations have the veto. Although it was precisely to avoid the veto's paralysis that the West first moved some peacekeeping decisions to the Assembly, Western influence in the U.N. is gradually fading with the growth of the Afro-Asian bloc-which now comprises 60 of the organization's 115 member nations. Under the circumstances, some Washington officials are convinced that the day is not far off when the U.S. might want to be in a position to use its Security Council veto...
...Conservative government had closed its eyes too long to a mounting trade deficit that by year's end seemed certain to top $2 billion, almost equivalent to the gold reserves of the entire sterling bloc (see charts}. Theoretically, few economists quarreled with Wilson's first, stringent measures to close the gap: a "temporary" 15% tax on virtually all imports reaching Britain, plus tax incentives for British industrialists who boost exports. Practically, however, Wilson could hardly have acted more ineptly...
...Santiago. Behind the move is Frei's frankly expressed desire to find new trade markets for Chilean exports, particularly copper. And besides, he adds, "I prefer to have the Russians operating in the open as diplomats." Eventually, the Christian Democratic President plans to establish relations with such Communist-bloc countries as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. There is one specific exception, though. Cuba will continue to get the freeze from Frei...