Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yaacobi, a Labor Party member: "The true sources of the recent events are the pent-up fury and hatred of 20 years of occupation, the swelling frustration over diplomatic stagnation, and the sense of impotence and hopelessness stemming from this." Added Ezer Weizman, a former Defense Minister and Likud bloc member who recently defected to Labor: "If we do not advance now toward a political solution the situation will only deteriorate rapidly...
Gore's appeal to moderates, his easy rapport with black leaders, and the fact that he will be the only white Southerner with a bloc of delegates constitute a large pile of chips. Says Nathan Landow, a fund raiser who helped coax Gore into the race: "If he doesn't get the top spot, he is the obvious running mate for any Northerner under any scenario, including a late entry by Mario Cuomo. Al Gore would bring all the necessary pieces...
Nguyen's highly organized tours, planned with the enthusiastic cooperation of the Hanoi government, begin in teeming Saigon. Arriving there in the "high season" -- the relatively dry period from November to May -- can pose a few logistical problems. Travelers from the Soviet Union and East bloc countries, seeking a winter refuge, come in droves. As current allies, they have the clout to book the downtown hotels, while Americans are often relegated to the Tan Binh, a tedious, hour-long pedicab ride from downtown's central market. Among the scant diversions of the place: tasty, small loaves of French bread, pint...
Tendler, whose parents were born in Soviet bloc countries, said the commeration of the Marshall Plan was especially important for him. Historians have claimed that the success of the Marshall Plan in rebuilding Europe economically helped to keep totalitarianism out of Western Europe...
...behind financing the contras was to force major concessions from the Sandinista regime, and perhaps to overthrow it entirely. After much maneuvering in Washington, Reagan in August announced his peace plan, which called for an immediate cease-fire and required the Sandinistas to give up all Cuban and Soviet-bloc aid, open negotiations with the contras, release all political prisoners, restore civil liberties and hold elections soon. Reagan was pleased to regard this as a bipartisan plan because it had won the co- sponsorship of Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright...