Word: communist-bloc
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...make the trip. Summoned unexpectedly to the Kremlin last week were the bosses of the Soviet Union's other dependencies -East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Reason for the conclave: a top-level meeting of COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance), the lame, 13-year-old Communist-bloc alliance originally designed by Stalin as an answer to the Marshall Plan. The COMECON agenda was, as usual, secret, but obviously two acute problems had converged to unsettle Soviet policymakers: 1) the booming success of the Common Market, which violates Red dogma that capitalist states must devour each other...
...another. To fight back, the Soviet Union recently began a dual tariff system of its own, with one set of high duties for nations that "discriminate," another, lower set for those that do not. What Russia urgently wants is concessions by the Six that will allow the Communist-bloc countries, even if their products are not competitive, to maintain their trade with Western Europe...
...Soviet Ilyushin-18 turboprop touched down at Belgrade's military airport last week, rolled to a stop before a neat row of Communist-bloc diplomats that included every resident Red representative except the Albanians. Then the plane door popped open and out stepped Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, his usual grouchy expression replaced by an almost friendly smile...
Such a policy, he said, is shortsighted because it would open the Congo to communist penetration. A Congo without Katanga would be economically dependent on outside aid and would probably look to the communist-bloc for help because of distrust of the West...
...resolution that was finally adopted last week largely reflected the moderation and good sense of onetime colonies in Africa and Asia. Over repeated Communist-bloc attempts to mine it for propaganda, the program adopted by a 97-0 vote in the General Assembly sets no specific date, instead demands independence "without further delay" for the 55 million dependent people still ruled by the Western powers, and sets up a 17-member special committee to check on their progress...