Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the leftward lurch continues. The island's new chief source of oil is the Soviet bloc, following the seizure of three U.S. and British firms (Esso, Caltex, Burmah-Shell) and the creation of a government oil combine. The Western companies have not been paid a cent for their properties worth $29.5 million; as a result, the U.S. has canceled further economic aid to Ceylon after doling out a yearly average of $7.5 million over the last decade...
...Argentine corporations for the first time since Juan Perón squeezed private underwriters out of business 17 years ago. And from the standpoint of Argentine companies, the stock sales are an excellent hedge against future expropriation; the small investors who consider a company theirs constitute an effective vote bloc...
Foreign public opinion remains, for the most part, unconvinced by the U.S. press. The socialist bloc is not alone in its conviction that Oswald was framed. The Messenger, a moderate Greek newsweekly, wrote, "It is obvious...that they [the Dallas police] manufactured methodically the evidence against Oswald, and that they helped Ruby in his deed, so that Oswald's voice would never be heard...
From the Common Market to the Far East and from Canada to South America, the steady and gratifying economic growth of the free world's industrial nations in 1963 provided a striking contrast to the widespread economic difficulties of the Communist bloc. There were economists, of course, who complained that one nation's boom was racing too fast, that another's was losing headway, or that still another's could not continue without strong medicines. But no one could gainsay the fact that most free, industrialized nations stood clear of crucial economic problems-while the Soviet...
...eager to buy not fertilizer but entire fertilizer plants from the U.S. Whether or not to sell him plants is a high-policy decision now facing President Johnson and Congress. One sticker is the Export Control Act, which bars the shipment of anything that would significantly help the Communist bloc's economy. Farmer Khrushchev would be the first to hope that U.S. fertilizer plants would do just that...