Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major diplomatic conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, the U.S. last week confronted the new, assertive Europe. At Geneva, the U.S. started to bargain for its future economic relations with the Common Market, which is just five years old and is already the world's biggest trading bloc. At Ottawa, in recognition of its allies' new strength, the U.S. initiated the slow, painful process of sharing with Europe control of NATO's nuclear armory. If neither conference produced dramatic results, both narrowly skirted breakdowns that might have gravely damaged the Atlantic partnership...
Devious Device. For all its closed-door meetings (no fewer than 61 in the first four months of 1963), COMECON has come to hardly any substantial agreements. Although the COMECON nations and Red China last week agreed on a 40% to 50% cut in air fares within the Red bloc, COMECON has been able to reach agreement on production assignments to members in only a few, uncontroversial cases...
...independence, and in so doing they are defending the cause of the black peoples," said Chalmers. "The independence of the only black nation in America must be safeguarded." The Russians used the occasion to work up anti-Yankee propaganda, but Haiti's appeal to the Afro-Asian bloc fell flat, and the Security Council bucked the issue back to the Organization of American States. The OAS voted to send a second peacemaking group to Hispaniola with a broader mandate to keep peace on the explosive island and pressed Haiti to guarantee the safety of opposition Haitians. Under...
...will also be required to notfly the AEC in advance of any formal visits planned by Soviet-bloc scientists, although there will be no control over "casual" visits. This provision represents a modification of the Commission's original demand that it control all visits to the CEA, and that the University file a detailed report after each visit by a Soviet-bloc guest...
...third restriction, which would have given the AEC control over all scientific information released by the CEA staff to Soviet-bloc scientists, was eliminated from the final contract at Harvard's insistence. Instead a provision was substituted which stipulates that "requests for unpublished information from foreign nations may be filled, but, when appropriate, information will be requested in return...