Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Isolation Anxiety. In Moscow, the Warsaw Pact officials spent much of their two-day meeting debating West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's offer of improved trade and political relations. Since fear of the West Germans has been one of the East bloc's unifying forces, a reconciliation with Bonn could slowly erode the Warsaw Pact. The prospect of a rapprochement particularly alarms East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who fears that his half of Germany might lose considerable East bloc business in the event of a deal between Bonn and the Warsaw Pact countries...
...such political activities as rallies and speeches will once again be permitted. By June, electoral rolls are to be brought up to date to include 60 million eligible Pakistanis 21 years old or over. On Oct. 5, in Pakistan's first nationwide elections, voters in West and East Pakistan will choose about 300 delegates to a constitutional convention. Yahya has given the delegates 120 days to write a constitution; if they do not succeed in that time, he will disband the convention and arrange for a new one to be elected. Once a constitution is approved, a government will...
...first time, Pakistan will operate under the one-man, one-vote rule. The chief result will be to give populous but impoverished East Pakistan greater power-this despite the fact that Yahya is a West Pakistani and his province has been predominant in the past. The move, he explained, was "a basic requirement of any democratic form of government...
...Middle East the direct approach is not always the most successful one. Last week a complicated three-way swap of prisoners took place among Israel, Syria and Egypt. Shlomo Samueloff, a Hebrew University physiology professor, and Saleh Muallem, a travel agent, had been held in Damascus since their TWA jet was hijacked on Aug. 29. They were exchanged for 13 Syrians held by the Israelis, including two pilots who had accidentally flown their Syrian Air Force MIG-17s into Israel 16 months ago. In an emotional scene at Lydda airport, Premier Golda Meir hugged and kissed the two returnees...
...black period for me," he recalls. "I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do, except get out of California. I'd grown up there, but I always had this image in my head of living in New York. So I took off for the East with some idea of being an artist. When anybody asked me what I wanted to be-whatever that means, anyway-I'd tell them I wanted to be an art director. That seemed to be a pretty dodgy thing...