Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overshadowing all else is the question of Johnson's approach to the Communist bloc and the related issues of Cuba and Berlin. Moscow's first reaction to Kennedy's death was one of near panic, caused in part by plain ignorance of Johnson's views, in part by fear that the association of Kennedy's accused assassin with far-left causes would touch off a violent reaction in the U.S. and freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun...
...himself a wealthy man by steering his New Jersey-based Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp. in and out of quick trades in the risky commodities futures market. Then DeAngelis thought he saw another chance for a fast fortune in soybean and cotton-seed-oil futures. If the Soviet bloc wheat crop failed, he reasoned, other farm products, including vegetable oils, must have suffered as well; and as soon as the Red nations had signed their wheat purchase contracts in the U.S., they would be back bidding on oils and other U.S. produce. DeAngelis bought $150 million worth of vegetable...
Some believe that trade with the Red bloc may have political advantage-by making the satellites less dependent on Moscow and possibly making Moscow more dependent on the West. Others, notably West Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, feel that the West should trade with Russia only in return for cold war concessions. Washington believes that this policy is not feasible, if only because U.S. allies are eager to trade with the Reds, are scarcely even willing to rule out strategic items that NATO specifically forbids. Western European exports to the Soviet bloc last year climbed...
Gentlemen's Disagreement. In Paris, Ball also got a sympathetic reception, a pleasant change for a U.S. envoy these days. France last year exported to the Soviet bloc goods worth only about $266 million; Russian barter proposals, involving a swap of Soviet coal and oil for heavy industrial goods, are highly unattractive since France can sell its own coal and oil inside the Common Market. Besides, Charles de Gaulle believes that trading with the Soviets is a dirty business (although he seems willing to trade with Red China) and recently denied an export license to a leading French steel...
...travel of Communist diplomats are purely retaliatory. In recent years the Eastern Europeans have opened large parts of their countries to American diplomats; our unprovoked action upsets our otherwise improving relations with Eastern Europe and needlessly robs U.S. foreign policy of flexibility in bargaining with the Soviet bloc...