Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, a Soviet trade mission in Ottawa offered to buy some $200 million worth of U.S. wheat to ease the effects of a disastrous harvest. Czecho slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary weighed in with formal bids for another $60 million worth. First reaction in the U.S. was heavily favorable-even Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater said he was for it. But suddenly the whole thing seemed to bog down...
...meeting room doors. At length, Metropolitan Meliton of Heliopolis, representing Athenagoras, proposed that the decision be left to the individual churches. With support from the Russians, this resolution passed, and five Orthodox branches will join Moscow in sending men to the council-the Patriarchate of Antioch, the churches of Bulgaria, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Cyprus...
...example, the nuclear testing resolution (which erased a former NSA condemnation of all testing by the United States), the resolution condemning the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and East Germany for suppressing students, and a resolution decrying some manifestations of progressive education were all substantially written by members of the conservative caucus and assed. On the other hand, conservatives successfully opposed proposals asking colleges to withdraw from the recent civil defense program, supporting federal aid to elementary and secondary education, and endorsing civil disobedience...
...since Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian Freedom Fighters' revolt in 1956 has the U.S. had an ambassador in Budapest. But for several months the U.S. has been negotiating toward more extensive diplomatic relations with Hungary. Similar conferences for friendlier relations-both political and economic -with Rumania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia are being considered too. The U.S. State Department notes that much of the incentive has come from the satellites themselves; they have displayed an increasing interest in trading with the U.S., and even now 40% of all satellite trade is with countries in the West...
...Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years of stalling the U.S., Sofia finally agreed to a settlement involving more than $3,500,000 in conflicting commercial claims. Reason: Bulgaria badly wants to boost trade with the U.S., leaped at the chance to open a trade promotion office in Manhattan...