Word: bloc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Percy's credentials are impressive: a self-made millionaire businessman, a liberal who nonetheless would not have what one Republican calls "that hate bloc" against him, mildly dovish on Viet Nam (but with enough hedges to landscape a steeplechase course), and demonstrably concerned with the sickness of the cities. But his lack of experience could hurt him if he wanted to be at the top of the ticket...
Thieu was also trying to convert other rivals into partners. Taking advantage of the split-up of the bloc of presidential losers, he has been trying to widen his own political base. He hopes to choose ministers from a number of different political groups so that his Cabinet will have the complexion of a government of national unity. The only thing that he seems uncertain about is the date of his own inauguration. Astrologers cautioned against holding it on Nov. 1 as planned, since the moon will be spent, its crescent thin and the tides low. Thieu is now considering...
Although basically pro-West, the Shah has also refrained from taking sides in Viet Nam. In fact, he has so improved his once-strained relations with Russia that the Soviet bloc in the past year has negotiated to build for him more than a billion dollars worth of heavy industry, including Iran's first full-fledged steel mill, in return for surplus natural gas and oil. The deals have not changed the Shah's pro-Western views. Iran, he says, is "importing iron but not ideology...
...Chancellors Adenauer and Erhard, letters from East Germany were not even opened. As a price for joining "the Grand Coalition," the Social Democratic Party insisted on a conciliatory foreign policy that aimed not only at working for German reunification but also at improving relations with the entire Soviet bloc. Bonn has recently offered East Germany the prospect of more trade, large development loans and official talks at the sub-Cabinet level about easing travel and communications restrictions that now exist between the two countries. But it has not found the East German regime at all receptive. In fact, Willi Stoph...
Rival Cliques. In West Germany, the Social Democrats are becoming painfully aware that the intransigence of East Germany and its East-bloc allies is the main cause of tension within the Grand Coalition. Kiesinger is under increasing pressure from the right-wingers of his own party not to go so far in seeking to deal with the East. Herbert Wehner, the chief Socialist tactician, and Socialist Foreign Minister Willy Brandt insist that the government must keep on trying even in the face of continued negative responses...