Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign trade. Government and business must be more aggressive, he said, and must send a new breed of technological "Yankee traders" to exploit rich Asian markets. Most notably, like Democratic Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown, Connally advocated a North American common market. "This economic union would be a formidable trading bloc," he said. Here too there are problems. Mexico has already denounced the idea as little more than latter-day Yankee imperialism designed to capture Mexican oil. It is also, according to one prominent businessman, ''hideously complex...
...faced with a build-up of aggressiveness in the NATO bloc," railed Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. U.S. leaders, he declared last week, were paying lip service to peaceful cooperation while actually fomenting "an atmosphere of fear" and "whipping up the arms race." With some of the toughest public language used by any Soviet leader in years, he even accused the U.S. of making "concrete plans and preparations for a war aimed against the U.S.S.R. and its allies...
...would then have been virtually obliged to recognize the cooperative Muzorewa regime, lift sanctions and oversee elections without Patriotic Front participation. That course would not only have angered the front-line and Commonwealth states, it could also have provoked an escalation of the war and possible intervention by Communist bloc countries and South Africa. But by facing down the guerrillas last week, Carrington won big on a high-stakes gamble...
...were the notoriously brutal Treasury Police, who killed 18 people in a savage attack on striking workers at four large factories in the capital. Leftist terrorists cut loose with an orgy of violent protest, blowing up three power plants and burning seven buses. The 75,000-member Popular Revolutionary Bloc, the largest of El Salvador's leftist movements, denounced the new junta as merely a "change of face" and planned a mass demonstration in San Salvador. While giving permission for the demonstration, the new junta warned that it would use force, if necessary, to prevent a new outbreak...
Women would have to decide whether to operate as a bloc or within traditional political channels at the convention, Bellamy told the mostly female audience...