Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President de Gaulle begins his visit to Latin America in three weeks, he will be making his boldest bid for leadership of a separate bloc of free nations since France began its strategy of independence...
...splash. He also believes France is better equipped to win support from small nations than either the U.S. or Russia, because "many states and world opinion instinctively shy away from giants." His greatest, and still unrealized, goal is to create a third force in the world, a power bloc rallying around France and capable of arbitrating East-West disputes by inclining its influence toward one side or the other...
Though the current Communist fiction has it that no visas are required for citizens of Soviet bloc nations, it is not easy for East Germans to get out. Prospective tourists must get permission from their local police, and since individual travel is allowed only when the tourist has a specific invitation, most East Germans travel in officially organized groups, stay in shabby, second-class hotels. This permits Walter Ulbricht's hard-eyed functionaries to ride close herd on them, makes meeting in hotel rooms risky. But the twain meet anyway-on beaches and volleyball courts, in parks and restaurants...
Roman Catholic vice-presidential nominee would strengthen the national Democratic ticket because he would attract bloc votes in Northern cities. One national election later, when Kennedy went to the White House, Sorensen accompanied him as Special Counsel. He contributed heavily toward building Kennedy's domestic program, sat in on just about every major decision made in the White House. So close were Sorensen and the President that it was often hard to distinguish the point where Sorensen ended and Kennedy began...
While Russia's grain shortage makes the news, it is only the most prominent of a whole basketful of economic problems that plague the Communist bloc. COMECON, the eight-nation group created by the Communists in frank imitation of the Common Market, not only has failed to relieve the economic chaos in Eastern Europe, but in many ways has actually worsened it. So nightmarish is their job that the satellite economists have begun to grumble openly...