Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only objection voiced by Monro was that the number of Faculty members on the HPC should be kept small, so that its Faculty delegation could not form a bloc large enough to prevail whenever there is student disagreement. Monro would be a member of the proposed HPC, and the HCUA finally left the number of Faculty members unspecified...
...national liberation struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America," thus hinting at a more pressing pursuit of revolution than Khrushchev had espoused. Both Chou and Castro's henchman, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, applauded vigorously when Brezhnev warned: "Hands off Cuba." As to restoring unity within the bloc, Brezhnev said: "There is every objective condition for cooperation between Socialist countries to grow stronger." And at the Red Square anniversary parade, Brezhnev wound up old Rodion Malinovsky, his Defense Minister, for a rocket-rattling speech aimed as much at Chou's ears as at the West...
...fall and the prospect of keeping Red China within the pale of the Communist movement. Nikita was threatening to make things hot for independent-minded Rumanian Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, whose refusal to turn his oil-rich nation into a "gas station" for Comecon threw Khrushchev's bloc-wide economic scheme out of kilter...
...Hungary, where Janos Kadar enjoyed a "special relationship" with Khrushchev, has more internal freedom and more contact with the West than any bloc nation, despite the continued presence of Red Army troops. Last year some 70,000 Hungarians traveled in the West, while 200,000 Westerners-mainly Austrians, Italians and West Germans, as well as 12,000 Americans-came in and spent money. Budapest, with its fine but expensive restaurants, its Magyar beauties in beehive hairdos, its "Rockola" jukebox parlors, its elegant Hotel Gellert surrounded by Jags, Mercedes and Alfa Romeos, is by far the most European city...
...branched out, at his death in 1932 owned plants in 27 countries. His heirs, Half-Brother Jan and Son thomas Jr., later lost part of this empire to the Nazis and then to the Czech Communists, who expropriated the Zlin works and now turn out shoes for the East Bloc. In a memorable lawsuit that lasted nine years, Jan and thomas quarreled over the remains. Jan lost but was allowed to retain Bata's Brazilian plant...