Word: bloc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting was a reconciliation as well as a chance to compare views on a bothersome issue. Though they both are striving to keep the Russians at a distance, the two biggest revisionists in the Communist bloc have not been getting along ever since Ceauseşcu declined to support the Arabs in their fight with the Israelis in June. At a gathering in the Kremlin, Tito took aside Rumanian Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer in a corridor and upbraided him for his refusal to toe the pro-Arab line. He then went home in a fury and canceled an invitation...
...efforts to curb federal spending flavored the entire session, giving it a bitter taste-but no tax bill and only marginal savings. In the House, where dispute was hottest, the Republicans began by declaring that the old conservative coalition of the G.O.P. and Southern Democrats was dead, but the bloc won more crucial vote tests than in any of the past ten years. Nonetheless, the tradition-clogged congressional machinery managed to finance the war, keep the important domestic programs going, and pass some key legislation. The record on major issues...
...liberal Senator Jacob Javits-the first official New York G.O.P. function that Nixon has attended since moving there four years ago from California. While Rockefeller and New York Mayor John Lindsay listened with fixed smiles, Nixon warmly endorsed Javits for re-election next year. Ironically, the potentially most powerful bloc in the G.O.P. is musclebound. Twenty-four of the nation's 26 Republican Governors, ending a conference in Palm Beach last week, failed to unite behind any one candidate-although as many as 15 or 20 of them favor Rockefeller...
Goodbye, France. NATO's foreign ministers also added to the alliance's traditional defense missions a new diplomatic dimension. Acting on the recommendation of Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Harmel, the ministers voted to use NATO's consultative machinery to coordinate Western contacts with the Eastern bloc. In this way, the ministers hope that their countries can use trade and cultural exchange with the East as leverage to work for mutual troop reduction...
Once their existence was officially acknowledged by Moscow, UFOs began popping up all over the East bloc. The Bulgarians have reported "a huge, shining body" over Sofia, the Czechs have seen flat, multicolored disks spinning over Bratislava, and Poland's Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology has ordered a watch on all "mysterious space vehicles." UFOs have been particularly ubiquitous in Yugoslavia, whose press has gleefully recounted a Montenegrin shepherd's report of a whistling, skyscraper-high UFO, told of UFOs streaking over the Istrian port of Koper, and detailed Truck Driver Milika Scepanović's brush with...