Word: bloc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shifted to Warsaw when Rumania bridled at Ulbricht's criticism of its move and refused to come to his city. Rumanian Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu sent an underling to Warsaw, went off for a leisurely week of discussions in Brussels, where he boldly proclaimed that a bloc like Eastern Europe has become an "anachronism left over from the time of the cold...
...people. The pleas did not have much effect, and the communiqueé issued at the meeting's end was so bland that it did not even mention the central issue of Germany. The Warsaw meeting revealed an intriguing pattern of disintegration in what used to be the Communist bloc. >Russia, which is having enough troubles with Red China, is angry at the Ulbricht regime for its attack on Rumania, which forced the transfer of the meeting and embarrassed the Soviet leadership. > East Germany is furious at the Rumanians for 1) recognizing West Germany, 2) robbing Ulbricht of the prestige...
...Wilson discussing the chances for peace in Vietnam. He must realize, along with most of the Red leaders in Eastern Europe, that as long as Communist China is preoccupied with its cultural revolution, the burden of supporting North Vietnam with arms and materiel will fall increasingly on the European bloc of Communism...
...Party admits. It has been described by Western observers as "a party and a half" system, with the L.D.P. being the party and the opposition adding up to the half. Japan's Socialists, who control more than 12 million votes, are the nation's second biggest voting bloc, but Party Boss Kozo Sasaki, 65, is a Peking-lining fanatic who is even farther to the left than Communist Party Leader Sanzo Nozaka, 74, who last year struck a course away from Peking and more toward Moscow. Toward the ever-growing center of Japanese politics stands the Social Democratic...
...Johnson Administration has finally brought the consular treaty it signed with the Soviet Union in 1964 to the Senate for ratification. The treaty, unfortunately has been heavily criticized by a bloc of Senators more concerned with a chimerical Red peril than resumption of the thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations...