Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly solid bloc of Republicans--only Doug Bereuter (R-Neb.) defected--was joined by 64 Democrats, chiefly from timber and farm areas in the 239-190 vote to redeem Bush's campaign promise to tax investment income at a lower rate than wages...
...truth, it was the Soviet Union that was in a very difficult and very unusual situation. Hungary, along with Poland, is the most enthusiastic East- bloc supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Moreover, Gorbachev has pledged noninterference in East European affairs. At the same time, Gorbachev does not want to preside over the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Moscow's unease may in part explain the arrival of Soviet Politburo Member Yegor Ligachev in East Berlin last week. Moscow said the trip was long planned, but there was little doubt that the presence of Ligachev, a hard-liner known...
...making Bonn his first capital of call since the formation of Poland's democratically elected government, Walesa was drawing attention to a dramatic geopolitical shift: Western Europe is now the brightest beacon for East bloc countries as they emerge blinking from the long shadow of Soviet suzerainty. Walesa's mission also underscored a larger truth. In ways large and small, Western Europe is becoming a player in its own right on the world stage, increasingly less reliant on the U.S. and less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never...
...process of economic integration and further the old dream of Continental unity. In a bold venture eyed warily by the rest of the globe, the twelve members of the European Community* have pledged to unite their markets by Dec. 31, 1992, creating the world's largest market and trading bloc. West Europeans have few illusions about their ability to create a United States of Europe. Even within individual countries, regional rivalries are still pronounced, and the Continent's cultural diversity will continue to be a barrier to political unification. Only last week the E.C. warned of "worrying delays" by member...
...same time, East bloc decolonization appears to be in full swing, creating the conditions for a rapprochement that promises a safer, less divided Continent. The process could yet end in instability and repression, but Europeans on both sides of the ideological divide are seizing a precious opportunity to end four dangerous decades of armed confrontation. A Europe freed from the threat of military aggression would also be a Europe with resources freed to speed growth and augment its geopolitical clout. Last week both sides pursued that chance in Vienna, where negotiations for reducing conventional armed forces in Europe resumed, with...