Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement proved somewhat exaggerated. But if Lisbon's sprawling, 500-year-old African outback wasn't being liquidated last week, it was certainly under siege-together with its neighbor and partner, South Africa. Having called the Security Council into session, the 32-nation African bloc demanded that 1) Portugal get out of her colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, and 2) the world help throttle South Africa's apartheid regime. Behind both demands lay a deeper motive: to eliminate the last strongholds of white rule on the Dark Continent...
...issues that divide East and West, the treaty is a limited achievement, but the President pointed out that it is "an important first step-a step toward peace-a step toward reason-a step away from war." With what was, in the light of the cleavage within the Communist bloc, a nice touch of irony, he quoted an ancient Chinese proverb: "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step...
With some 125 East-bloc agents arrested every month in their divided country, Germans are blasé about spy stories. But the case that unfolded in a Karlsruhe courtroom last week proved that Bonn's vaunted Gehlen intelligence service had been infiltrated for ten years by the Reds, and that the organization had knowingly hired former Nazis. All three of the men on trial, longtime employees of Gehlen, were also longtime employees of the Soviet Union. By all odds, it was the most embarrassing spy scandal to hit West Germany since...
Last week, in the Commons, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath revealed that Philby had surfaced "in one of the countries of the Soviet bloc." New information had come to light, said Heath, that revealed that Philby had been a Soviet agent while working for the government and in fact had been the tipster who had warned Burgess and Maclean...
Narodny's prime function is still to grease East-West trade, which last year expanded 10% to $19 billion. When a British or other non-Communist company makes a sale to a Soviet-bloc customer, Narodny will pay the exporter at once, saving him the usual three-to six-month wait before collecting. For Narodny's services, the exporter pays a commission of 3% to 4% of the bill, so that the Soviets benefit doubly from the transaction...