Word: blocs
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...drop in East bloc sales makes the industry more dependent on exports to the Third World, but political and economic developments are cutting off those markets as well. U.S. officials have joined Israel in condemning the sale to Syria. The deal also set off a fierce struggle within Czechoslovakia between government officials who want to bolster the nation's international reputation and others who think the agreement could help bridge the gap until the industry retools for nonmilitary production. Says Slovak Prime Minister Jan Carnogursky: "We've asked the federal government to clear the matter up and persuade complaining governments...
That proved to be an important factor leading to his defeat in the November 1989 elections. V.P. Singh, a former Congress notable whose opposition bloc went on to win the government, charged at the time that Gandhi, who usually kept out of the crush and was shielded by a phalanx of commandos, "had lost touch with the people." It was a mistake -- as Rajiv saw it -- that he did not repeat. While pressing the flesh in the northern state of Bihar on May 5, he spoke about the change. "I used to campaign like this when I was secretary-general...
...agreement, which will have the effect of locking in all of Mexico's liberalizations, will end up simply providing the Japanese with opportunities to invest in plants that will export to the U.S. That would squarely contradict one of the Bush Administration's primary aims: to create a trading bloc in the western hemisphere to compete with the formidable bloc being created by Japan in Asia...
Most other former East bloc countries have barely started their sales. Eager to help them -- and especially eager to earn handsome fees for making the deals -- are scores of investment bankers who have descended upon Eastern Europe. "It's Klondike on the Danube," says George Lorinczi, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, an American law firm that opened an office in Budapest last September...
Another reason exists for the Kurds' sufferings: the Turks adamantly refuse to let many of them cross the frontier. The Turks fear that the refugees will join Kurdish Turks in forming a political bloc demanding more autonomy than Ankara is willing to grant...