Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...root of the new policy is an outmoded concept of the Soviet bloc as a monolithic political entity, a concept the State Department abandoned years ago. By imposing travel restrictions on these five countries, the U.S. implies that they are all alike and must be treated as we treat the Soviet Union. In the process, American diplomacy loses a valuable tool which might have been used to help dislodge the Eastern European countries from each other and from the Russians...
...help the developing nations of the world become strong and free-an amount less than this country's annual outlay for lipstick, face cream and chewing gum? Are we saying that we cannot help our 19 needy neighbors in Latin America with a greater effort than the Communist bloc is making in the single island of Cuba...
...hear Nikita Khrushchev tell it, the $250 million wheat deal between the U.S. and the Communist bloc was about to crumble like a dry cooky. "I do have a feeling one might not come to an agreement," he told Moscow's visiting U.S. businessmen. "It may well happen that we will let you eat your own grain...
...that some Communist rulers are acceptable to him, and that America's reluctance to liberate the Eastern European "captive nations" does not mean abandoning them to slavery. Premier Khruschev, by his long and amiable visit to Yugoslavia a few months ago, santioned a looser, less ideological, and less beligerent bloc...
Maybe a Loss. In the face of acute crop failures throughout the Communist bloc, the U.S. also was counting on a substantial rise in wheat prices and a consequent boost of perhaps $100 million in U.S. farm income. But Canada last week scotched that hope. The Canadians sold Japan 30 million bushels of wheat in a secret deal, promising delivery over the next eight months at a fixed price. Thus, even if a wheat shortage drives world prices higher-as is likely-the Canadians must deliver at the original lower fixed price. And since Japan is one of the biggest...