Word: bloc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continued vitality can be attributed at least in part to shifting occupational trends in the U.S. Carter was able to hold together the New Deal coalition of blacks, trade-union members and the South. But that bloc, which in 1936 accounted for 60 per cent of the voting public, now amounts to only 43 per cent of the electorate...
...ominous for Ian Smith. The number of guerrillas based inside Rhodesia had quadrupled in just six months, to as many as 3,000; another 5,000 to 8,000 were based in Mozambique, and 2,500 or so in Zambia. The guerrillas are well armed ? mostly with Soviet bloc equipment ? and increasingly well trained. They have been so active even in the dry season, when army patrols are more effective, that civilian cars have had to travel in armed convoys on many roads. Road and rail links to South Africa are increasingly threatened. According to one widely accepted...
...record unsurpassed in Europe today except by the Soviet Union's durable Bolsheviks. Last week, in a decision that echoed throughout Western Europe, Sweden's voters ousted the Social Democrats and cautiously mandated a new, more conservative course for their country. Nationwide parliamentary elections gave the nonsocialist bloc-the Center, Moderate and Liberal parties-50.8% of the vote, providing it with 180 of Parliament's 349 seats, v. 47.6% of the vote and 169 seats for the informal ruling alliance of the Social Democratic and Communist parties...
...diplomatic matters, Peking emphasized a mood of business as usual. The Soviet Union was attacked with customary stridency. The Chinese officially rejected condolence messages from the Communist parties in Moscow and most of the Soviet-bloc countries, including Cuba and Mongolia. A diatribe against Moscow's policy toward the developing world was entitled "Soviet Quack Medicine Go to Hell." The Chinese also took delight in the defection to the West of MIG-25 Pilot Viktor Belenko (TIME, Sept. 20), cheering that it "put the Soviets in a fix and shamed them into a rage...
...Barry Gold water became the first Republican ever to sweep the Deep South?but in so doing, he helped paint the Southern G.O.P. into a far corner of conservative, segregationist reaction. Figuring that Republicans could not win much of the black vote as a bloc, Goldwater said: "We ought to go hunting where the ducks are"?in effect among white segregationists. This appeal, then and since, attracted many strongly conservative Democrats who were distressed by the increasingly moderate trend of their own party. In 1972 the G.O.P. reached its high-water mark. Nixon won all Southern states, and after...