Word: blocs
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Furthermore, the comments and actions of Republican Club president Sumner E. Anderson '92 have disturbed many campus right-wingers who, although "socially conservative," are nonetheless tolerant and respectful of other viewpoints. In using such simplified labels, the staff inaccurately portrays the campus right as a monolithic bloc of "political demagogues...
Despite the calendar, the revolutions of 1989 have not yet ended. As one East bloc regime after another was shaken by political change last fall, only one Communist government in Europe managed to withstand the political earthquake unscathed. Now, nearly six months later, the leadership of tiny Albania is finally loosening its ultra-orthodox Stalinist grip. Last week the legislature in Tirana voted a series of political and legal reforms that may mark the beginning of the end of decades of repression and isolation...
...fact, Dienstbier said the United States must play a vital role in reconstructing the Eastern European and Soviet economies. He said the United States, which rebuilt post-war Western Europe with the Marshall Plan, should now help the both the burgeoning democracies in the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union...
With the Soviets scooping up the cream of the East bloc, some agents who do not make the grade are hunting for espionage jobs in the West. Most are turned away. "If the KGB did not want them, why should we?" says a senior British diplomat. Many agents end up working in Western countries for Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Libya. "It makes sense," says Malcolm Mackintosh, senior fellow at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. "They are less conspicuous in the West than Arabs are." The cold war may be over, but for spies the basic method remains...
Classrooms in the Soviet bloc are experiencing a burst of intellectual freedom. But with the new honesty come old problems -- like shortages of teachers and books...