Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATO ministerial conference in Washington, with American encouragement, concentrated on the possibility of a detente with the Warsaw Pact bloc. And Jordan's King Hussein concluded a White House visit, satisfied that the U.S. is following an "evenhanded" policy in the Middle East...
...list of an "Advisory Board--on Soviet Bloc Studies," including the late Allen Dulles, who retired as CIA director during the Kennedy Administration. Richard E. Pipes, professor of History and director of the Russian Research Center, said he knows of no Harvard facility for "Soviet bloc studies" at the present time or of such an advisory board...
...institution has kept out of politics to a remarkable degree. One reason perhaps is that until the late '40s Americans never tolerated a peacetime military force large enough to be influential. That has changed radically. What Dwight Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex* constitutes an enormous power bloc that now embraces manufacturers, organized labor, local business interests, many scientists and nonprofit organizations that get defense contracts (see box opposite). Yet it is difficult to show a precise cause-and-effect relationship between the defense complex and the generation of a specific conflict...
...months to discuss some sort of limitation on the ABMs. A much more complicated issue is the question of the Soviet attitude toward West Germany, which is the only West European state that has the economic muscle and geographic location to exert a direct influence on the East Bloc...
...Eastern Europeans, China holds out the promise of increased trade. A Yugoslav economic mission has just concluded a small trade agreement in Peking, and East-bloc countries are expected to be invited to do likewise. The East Europeans, of course, are far too realistic to think that China can replace Soviet influence in Europe. Yet many of them welcome the new Chinese approach because it gives them additional leverage against the Soviets...