Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steal -- Western defense technology. Soviet espionage, U.S. officials warn, is eroding the West's lead in high-tech weapons and saving the Kremlin millions of dollars in military research. To keep computers and other products with possible military uses from finding their way into the East bloc, the U.S. and its Western allies have imposed elaborate trade restrictions...
...street. "We are conditioning ourselves to assume that just because the Soviets want to buy or steal our technology, they have nothing of value for us to buy or steal," says John Kiser, who heads a Washington firm that specializes in finding new plastics technology in the East bloc and helping U.S. companies negotiate licensing agreements. "Most people don't realize there's high tech over there to be brought...
...these breakthroughs seem to defy the stereotype of the East bloc as a technological wasteland, it may be because Communist economies are extraordinarily uneven. "There are peaks of genuine achievement and troughs of appalling backwardness," observes Julian Cooper, a lecturer in Soviet studies at England's University of Birmingham. "The Soviets are often quite good at basic research. The problem is getting that technology into production...
Last week 3.9 million voters gave a characteristically vague answer. Though Schluter's center-right four-party minority coalition emerged with an unchanged bloc of 70 seats in the 179-member Folketing, he resigned as Prime Minister. Social Democrat Svend Jakobsen, the Speaker of Parliament, was entrusted by Queen Margrethe with the task of finding a government alignment that could win majority support. Schluter was confident that Jakobsen would fail and he would be reappointed...
...Democratic strategists have mistakenly dismissed the group as a single-issue--anti-abortion--constituency. Instead they should be appealing to evangelicals on the issues they have in common, such as aid to children, the elderly and the poor. Winning over the bloc is much more a question of how a candidate frames the debate, than his stance on every issue; righteous positions can be taken on many fronts, even without crossing the barrier between church and state...