Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller's slogan, "He Cared Enough to Come." It was not Oregon he cared about, but his all-consuming desire to be President. This desire has left New York without a Governor for months at a time. Many Republicans will never forgive him and the so-called Eastern bloc for their smear campaign against Senator Goldwater...
...improve the climate of the talks, the Bucharest regime reportedly released a few of the estimated 10,000 political prisoners still in Rumanian jails and leaked stories of anti-Russian demonstrations in Rumania. The Rumanians, who have long challenged Moscow's economic domination of the Eastern bloc, made it quite clear last week that they felt they could get away with all this because Moscow is currently too preoccupied with Red China to give them much trouble...
...putting into the Aswan Dam and ancillary installations. Though eventually the project will pay for itself in new cropland and electric power, these benefits will not be fully realized for nearly a decade, during which Nasser needs even larger sums for industrial development, and already Egypt owes the Soviet bloc $800 million plus a large, secret bill for arms. Khrushchev hinted broadly that there would be further massive credits-even though some Russians complained that Moscow already had too many foreign aid commitments...
...that we intended to continue reporting the Soviet Union as we saw it. Last week Shenker was called to the Foreign Ministry again and heard TIME denounced in language almost identical to the earlier charge, this time about the cover story on Lenin and the split in the Communist bloc (April 24). Shenker was ordered "to leave the borders of the Soviet Union," and our Moscow office was summarily closed...
Police officers comprise a sizeable voting bloc in Cambridge. No Councillors voted against the order...