Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps because his thoughts dwelled so much on the West Bank last week, Begin seemed strangely impervious to his coalition's defeat in the Knesset over an amendment to the country's abortion law. Agudat Israel, an orthodox religious party, had joined the Begin bloc in exchange for the Premier's support of its campaign to limit abortions. A motion to tighten the country's laws on the matter was defeated in a tie vote, 54-54, when four members of Begin's own Likud Party voted against it. Agudat Israel huffed that its four...
Washington had hoped that under Guevara, Bolivia would join with its fellow Andean Group members (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador) to form a pro-democracy bloc in Latin America...
Antidissident activity has also been heavy lately in other East bloc states, most notably Czechoslovakia. There, the particular target of Party Chief Gustav Husak's secret police is the movement that has grown over the past three years around Charter 77, a human rights manifesto signed by 1,000 people. Last month six Charter 77 organizers, among them Playwright Vaclav Havel, received sentences of up to five years for "subversion of the republic." Since then more than 25 Charter 77 signers have been hauled in for questioning on various trumped-up charges, including attempts to blow up a Prague...
...arrests and trials in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia have fostered a new spirit of unity among East bloc dissidents, who have launched a coordinated attempt to defend one another...
...whether the movement is Marxist: This is propaganda. The Republican movement has always been socialist in the Irish tradition of radical thinkers. It has never been a Marxist movement, and it is not one now. We are not enamored of what happens in the East bloc countries, and at the same time we don't think democracy exists in the West. We would have a lot more in common with the Third World...