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| | IN THE FORMER EAST BLOC, ABORTION REMAINS NORM John Schmid |
 | | In the East, many of the women are married and use abortion as standard birth control. | | | The now defunct East Bloc regimes left behind some of world's most liberal abortion on request laws but also a virtual vacuum of contraceptive information, experts say. | | | Most decreases in the decade since 1990 have been moderate, and in many countries the abortion rate has changed little from 1980. |
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| | From 1963-68, the Federal Republic had opened trade missions in five East bloc nations, established full diplomatic relations with three Communist states, and had received some limited political concessions for its efforts. | | | However, with the ushering in of more liberal administrations in the U.S. and West Germany during the 1960's, a marked shift towards using trade as a positive lever in influencing the behavior and capability of the East bloc began to take hold. | | | The basis for America's trade restrictions were the Export Control Act of 1949 and the Battle Act of 1951. |
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| | University of Michigan, NRE 545, 1997 Monograph |
| | Often community governments in the east have bowed to development pressures in order to please voters and raise revenues. | | | As stated in a 1996 report by the European Commission: | | | Today, privatizing all former GDR companies is a major governmental thrust. |
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| | Trade bloc - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Several blocs also have stated or implicit political goals—notably the EU. | | | This may include even a more democratic and participative system, as the EU and its parliament. | | | Particularly since the demise of most of the world's empires, a number of international—generally regionally based—economic blocs have been developed to promote trade between member states. |
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| | Eastern bloc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hungary was invaded by the Red Army in 1956 after it had overthrown its pro-Soviet government; Czechoslovakia was similarly invaded in 1968 after a period of liberalization known as the Prague Spring. | | | Although it was a Communist state, its leader, Marshal Tito, came to power through his efforts as a partisan resistance leader during World War II, and thus he was not installed by the Soviet Red Army, and he owed the Soviet leadership no allegiance. | | | This page was last modified 17:23, 28 October 2005. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Agostinho Neto (African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | In the civil war after Portugal's withdrawal, the MPLA controlled the capital (with Cuban help), enabling Neto to become president of Angola in 1975. | | | A Portuguese-educated physician and poet, he founded the Movimento Popular de LibertaCAo de Angola (MPLA) in 1956, directing the war of liberation against Portugal from exile with East bloc support. |
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| | Special Report |
| | If, for example, the United Nations General Assembly were to vote today on the issue of equating Zionism with racism, it would be of little surprise if a majority of East bloc countries voted against the resolution for fear of offending their new Western partners. | | | East bloc countries are looking to the West for financial and technological assistance and are clearly unwilling to challenge the West for Palestine's sake. | | | Nor can Palestine rely any longer on East bloc countries as primary sources of military supplies and training. |
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| | Do Old Laws Still Apply in Ex-East Bloc? |
| | In Oleksy's case, however, the most disturbing allegation is that he continued to spy for Moscow up to the time of his appointment as prime minister in early 1995 -- that is to say, for several years after the democratic renewals in Poland and Russia. | | | LONDON -- I have no idea whether Jozef Oleksy, the Polish prime minister who was forced to resign last week, was a spy for Moscow or just an ordinary politician who happened to be a Communist in the bad old days and therefore had a habit of unwittingly socializing with Warsaw-based KGB agents. | | | Do Old Laws Still Apply in Ex-East Bloc? |
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| | László Borhi: Containment, Rollback, Liberation or Inaction? The United States and Hungary in the 1950s |
| | NSC-5609 recommended that Congress selectively relax trade restrictions on East-bloc countries, treating each state as a separate case. | | | The State Department proposed that the United States push for increased self-determination for the Eastern bloc. | | | Soon, however, the secretary of defense began to question the feasibility of implementing the Kersten Amendment. |
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| | Cold War International History Project @ the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
| | [5] Comments at the conference, “The United States, the Middle East, and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War,” Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 12 January 2004. | | | This compilation was originally prepared for the conference, “The United States, the Middle East, and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War,” Office of the Historian, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 12-13 January 2004, to mark the publication of the volume of Foreign Relations of the United States containing documents on the war.[16] | | | [8] William Glenn Gray, “War and Opportunism: East Germany and the Arab States in 1967,” and Rolf Steininger, “The Soviet Union and the Six-Day-War,” paper for conference, “The United States, the Middle East, and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War,” Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 12-13 January 2004. |
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| | David F. Good, Center for Austrian Studies |
| | As the East bloc was catching up to Britain, it fell further behind more vigorous Western European economies. | | | In the nineteenth-century the slow, eighteenth-century transformation of the western territories in the Empire became irreversible. | | | Havlik (1985) confirms the overall pattern of East Europe's lag behind Austria in the post-World War II period with his purchasing power parity estimates of household income for Austria and Czechoslovakia. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Honecker salvages ties with East bloc: Berlin's deal with its reluctant citizens ... |
| | The breakthrough in Prague and Warsaw is a triumph for Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West Germany's Foreign Minister, who has been exhausted by his attempts to unravel the problem after suffering a heart attack this summer. | | | East Germany's decision to allow thousands of dissatisfied citizens to come to the West - with the face-saving technicality that they had first to cross East German territory on their train journeys from Warsaw and Prague - bears all the hallmarks of Mr Erich Honecker, the country's ailing leader. | | | While on the one hand taking a considerable gamble, the man who masterminded the building of the Berlin Wall 28 years ago can expect some support for his decision from President Gorbachev when he attends next weekend's 40th anniversary celebration in East Berlin. |
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| | No. 89-T 13 |
| | This is evident in the recent 418-0 vote in the House and 81-10 vote in the Senate for stronger economic and financial sanctions against China when it experienced social turmoil. | | | For example, the recent decision by three U.S. money center banks to bolster by some $4 billion their loan loss reserves for developing country loans has touched off a spate of skeptical commentary on prospects for the Brady debt reduction plan and North-South economic relations. | | | The West's more conservative policy may be that as East bloc governments pretend to reform, we will pretend to reward them. |
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| | The Wall Comes Down: Segment Summaries and Discussion Questions |
| | What did Gorbachev assume would be the reaction of the East Bloc countries to his reforms? | | | A Soviet delegation arrives to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the East German state. | | | Describe the confusion that ensues as a result of Schabowski's press conference on November 9, 1989. |
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| | NEWS.com.au Seven East bloc states join NATO (March 30, 2004) |
| | Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia became members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in a ceremony at the US Treasury, cementing the largest expansion in the now 26-member group's 55-year history. | | | Seven East bloc states join NATO (March 30, 2004) | | | SEVEN former Soviet republics and East bloc states formally joined NATO on Monday as their prime ministers deposited "instruments of accession" to the alliance's founding treaty. |
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| | Ex-East bloc dissidents vow solidarity with Cubans / Reuters - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News |
| | Havel, who was jailed on several occasions after helping start the pro-democracy Charter 77 movement more than 22 years ago, became president of the former Czechoslovakia within six weeks of the peaceful uprising in Prague. | | | The Czechs are set to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the start of its bloodless Velvet Revolution on November 17, which took place amid a wave of democratic revolutions in East Europe. | | | PRAGUE, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Former dissidents who helped bring down entrenched Communist governments a decade ago in Eastern Europe, including Czech President Vaclav Havel, pledged support for Cuban pro-democracy campaigners on Friday. |
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| | Old East Bloc Nations Step Tentatively Into the EU (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Since 1993, Lithuania has had 11 governments, Latvia 10 and Poland six. | | | Four of the current administrations in the eight East European states joining the union are at or near collapse. | | | Many face corruption charges of the kind that recently triggered the impeachment of Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas. |
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| | India did indeed declare non-alignment to aggressive blocs, but became ever more dependent on American dollars. | | | The third section below is the transcript, found in the East German archives, of a 26 December 1962 conversation in Beijing between Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Mongolia, Premier Yumzhagiin Tsedenbal (J. Zedenbal in German). | | | Meissner (Hong Kong Baptist University) and his colleagues at the Free University in Berlin, Anja Feege, M. Leutner, and Tim Trampedach, for providing access to this and other documnents on China from the former East German archives. |
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| | The Record (Bergen County, NJ) : A MEASURED APPROACH TO EAST BLOC AID @ HighBeam Research |
| | The Record (Bergen County, NJ); August 04, 1991; Compiled by Washington Bureau Chief Elizabeth Auster. | | | Start / T / The Record (Bergen County, NJ) / August 04, 1991 / A MEASURED APPROACH TO EAST BLOC AID | | | Read 'The Record (Bergen County, NJ): A MEASURED APPROACH TO EAST BLOC AID' with a FREE Trial for instant access » |
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http://static.elibrary.com/t/therecordbergencountynj/august041991/ameasuredapproachtoeastblocaid/index.html
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| | No. 89-T 4 |
| | Concern over continued undisciplined Western credit flows to Soviet Bloc countries has prompted Senators like Bill Bradley, James Sasser, Dennis DeConcini, Malcolm Wallop, Connie Mack, Jesse Helms and others to ask the Administration not to finance perestroika unconditionally. | | | Given the major security implications of these questions -- to which no one has an answer and probably will not for some years to come -- it would be short-sighted for the Administration, the Congress, the UK, France, Japan and other interested parties to engage in a "riverboat gamble" concerning the direction of perestroika. | | | It is therefore tempting to conclude that what has worked so well for the FRG can also work for other NATO members, including the United States. |
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| | NATO embarks on historic expansion into former Soviet East bloc |
| | A second ceremony will be held at NATO's Brussels headquarters on April 2 with its 19 current members and the foreign ministers of its seven new members. | | | NATO embarks on historic expansion into former Soviet East bloc | | | NATO on Monday signed up seven new countries in eastern Europe in an historic expansion that took its military muscle to the Russian border, heightening concern in Moscow. |
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| | Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER) |
| | This recommendation was approved by Cabinet on January 25, 1956. | | | All of the 250,000 tons covered by the original guarantee have now been purchased but less than 100,000 tons have yet been shipped. | | | WHEAT SALES TO POLAND AND OTHER EAST BLOC COUNTRIES |
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| | UICS: World Situation and the Revolution in Peru (7/10) |
| | Why is the situation, according to Asumir, unfavorable for advancing the revolution? | | | And it is one of the important internationalist tasks of the Maoist parties and organizations united in RIM to assist the CoRIM in attending to this task. | | | Chiefly because public opinion has become unfavorable towards communism since the fall of the East. |
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| | Eastern BlocEast Bloc Information |
| | *Bloc voteBloc (or Block) voting: a form of elections | | | Eastern BlocThe Eastern Bloc Countries: a former group of countries in Europe |
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| | Hungary Sets the Pace for East Bloc Change |
| | The Hungarian law, which passed Parliament Wednesday and is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, will be followed by a tax bill prescribing uniform tax rates of 40 percent and 50 percent for private, cooperative and state companies. | | | Neither Hungary nor Poland is about to sell off major state industries, as did the Governments of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Britain or Chancellor Helmut Kohl in West Germany. | | | But the new East bloc laws are intended to create a favorable investment climate and lure Western investors with money and know-how. |
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| | American Metal Market: Subsidy laws don't apply to East Bloc: US |
| | The decision on the two East Bloc countries only applies to the countervailing cases, however. | | | Subsidy laws don't apply to East Bloc: US | | | American Metal Market: Subsidy laws don't apply to East Bloc: US Home |
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| | Regionalism for East Asia? |
| | Unilateral actions such as those taken by the United States under its Super 301 provisions will be more difficult to take if East Asia is united. | | | Because of perceptions that its markets are de facto closed to outsiders, Japan has been a persistent target of market-opening actions by the United States during the past two decades. | | | Third, with many economically and politically diverse countries involved in the negotiations, establishing an FTA would be a Herculean task. |
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| | Dubai sets the pace for Middle East's emergence as an economic bloc Dubai DED |
| | Examining the participation of the government in the private sector and representing the government in companies where it has a stake, also comes under the purview of the DED. | | | The conference brought together business leaders, investors, senior members of Dubai's government and Economist Group experts on the Middle East. | | | Had Sheikh Zayed's programme been followed by the Arab nation as it has been in his own country, and had the Arab leaders adopted this programme, our Arab situation would have been different and our way to the year 2020 would have been paved and cleared.' |
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| | NATO and Former East Bloc Nations Agree on Weapons Cuts |
| | The White House, in announcing the agreement after it was reached Wednesday among negotiators in Vienna, said a new treaty would limit the number of tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, helicopters and other conventional weapons deployed in Europe on a country-by-country basis. | | | PHILIP SHENON, "NATO and Former East Bloc Nations Agree on Weapons Cuts," New York Times, July 24, 1997 | | | WASHINGTON -- The United States, Russia and 28 other nations agreed Wednesday on the framework for a treaty to reduce the number of tanks and other non-nuclear weapons in Europe, especially in Central European countries of the former Warsaw Pact. |
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| | AmbivaBlog: A Mideast/East Bloc Connection? |
| | Posted by amba on March 06, 2005 at 12:39 AM | | | UPDATE: The comparison is made explicit by Walid Jumblatt, Muslim Druze leader of the Lebanon uprising, quoted by David Ignatius in this morning's Washington Post: | | | Although the role of American pressure and support cannot be discounted, the Velvet, Rose, and Orange Revolutions are the true models and mentors for change in the Middle East. |
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| | Russia Agrees to Let Former East-Bloc Nations Join NATO |
| | Yeltsin stoutly denied Russian press reports that he was more eager for an accord with NATO than his foreign minister. | | | Seeking to limit the domestic political fallout, the Yeltsin government began pressing for a NATO-Russia agreement it could advertise at home to show that it had defended Russian interests. | | | "We stated and still state that Russia is against the expansion of NATO, but considering some historical and world realities, the menace of the expansion of the bloc to our country must be brought to a minimum or excluded altogether," Yeltsin said. |
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| | Europe celebrates as gates open to the east - World - www.theage.com.au |
| | For the people of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, enlargement crowns 15 years of often painful economic reforms since communist rule collapsed. | | | But at least for one night the EU took a breather from routine rows over money, power and fish quotas to celebrate. | | | Leaders of the bloc, representing 450 million citizens, were to hold a ceremonial summit in Dublin overnight to mark the birth of the world's biggest trading bloc, rivalling the US. |
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| | Uneasy Scrap Heap |
| | East Bloc still adjusting 10 years after Cold War's end, say faculty | | | Donald Hafner (Political Science) needed confirmation that a new chapter of history began in 1989, he found one in a recent course evaluation from an undergraduate. | | | Roberta Manning (History) saw handwritten notices of political meetings and heard enough rumors to realize "something extraordinary was happening." |
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| | Nation's Business: Government obstacles to U.S. trade in the East bloc must be removed |
| | Ending the Cold War between nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and members of the Warsaw Pact is in America's best economic interest. | | | The Bush administration told Congress that it is moving cautiously because the Soviet Union remains a formidable military power and because the Eastern bloc intelligence network remains a potential conduit of U.S. technology to Moscow. | | | The faster the U.S. government can remove official impediments to trade and investment without sacrificing genuine considerations of national security, the sooner it will help people of the East Bloc satisfy their yearnings and contribute to the permanent end of the Cold War. |
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| | Yen bloc in East Asia |
| | “Economic Policy in Japan and East Asia,” in Monetary Stability and Economic Growth: A Dialog Between Leading Economists, edited by Robert Mundell and Paul Zak, Edgar Elgar Publ.: Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, 2002. | | | "Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in East Asia and the Pacific?" in Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the U.S. in Pacific Asia, edited by Jeffrey Frankel and Miles Kahler, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993, 53-85. | | | "Is There a Currency Bloc in the Pacific?" (with Shang-Jin Wei), Kirribilli, Australia, July 12-13, 1993; in Exchange Rates, International Trade and the Balance of Payments, edited by Adrian Blundell-Wignall, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, 1993: 275-308. |
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| | NATO signs up 7 new states from ex-Soviet East bloc - Mar. 31, 2004 |
| | NATO signs up 7 new states from ex-Soviet East bloc | | | NATO signs up 7 new states from ex-Soviet East bloc - Mar. 31, 2004 | | | WASHINGTON - NATO on Monday signed up seven new countries in Eastern Europe in a historic expansion that takes its military muscle to the Russian border, heightening concerns in Moscow. |
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| | The East Bloc Spy-Der Web - Jan Sejna |
| | Jan Sejna is former first secretary of the Communist Party of the Ministry of Defense in Czechoslovakia and chief of staff of the Czech Ministry of Defense. | | | The East Bloc Spy-Der Web - Jan Sejna |
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| | U.S. Charges 3 With Spying For East Bloc |
| | The husband-and-wife team were code named "Ken" and "Tina" by their East German handlers in Berlin and at the East German Embassy in Washington, according to court papers. | | | ALEXANDRIA, Virginia -- Three people, including a former Pentagon attorney and her husband, were charged Monday with spying for East Germany and Russia in an espionage operation that began in 1972. | | | They used miniature cameras to photograph secret documents and short-wave radios to receive coded messages from their spy masters, prosecutors said. |
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| | Former East Bloc winery is robust Western success - 08/25/00 |
| | Even in Rotkaeppchen's case, yearly production suddenly plummeted from 15 million bottles to 1 million a year after the Wall fell. | | | But 144-year-old Rotkaeppchen, a longtime favorite at East German weddings and graduation ceremonies, is one of a handful of eastern German products that has not only maintained its back-yard market share but penetrated shop shelves in the West. | | | Former East Bloc winery is robust Western success |
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| | "These countries are relatively small vis-a-vis their powerful neighbors in the West and East, and have a need for a security safety net that meets the political, practical, and psychological dimensions of their vulnerabilities." Vuono said the six nations want membership in both NATO and the European Community. |
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| | East Germany has a law against going underground. | | | Literally interpreted, it says that you must stay out of your own basement. | | | He's translating _CAVER OF FORTUNE_ into German, with added advice on how to do keep a low profile while caving in E. Europe. |
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| | Global Health Council - Global Health News from around the World |
| | HIV infections and tuberculosis are rising rapidly in the former East Bloc, and unless action is taken to fight the infections, all of Europe is at risk of a major health crisis, according to the president of the German Red Cross. | | | Knut Ipsen, speaking at the European Regional Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference this week in Berlin, said that while Africa and Asia have the highest number of AIDS cases, the former East Bloc has the fastest growth rate, with 250,000 new cases in 2001. | | | Some 30,000 people die each year from tuberculosis in Russia, which in 2000 was seen in 90.7 per 100,000 people, double the European average, he said in prepared comments. |
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| | But while the 16 NATO leaders are expected to restrict the number of new members to three, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, when they gather in Madrid in July, this has not stopped the other nine former Soviet-led East Bloc states from increasing their lobbying efforts to be admitted to the Nato alliance. | | | This is likely to clear the way for a final agreement later this month on an issue that has dogged Moscow's relations with the West since the end of the cold war more than seven years ago. | | | The goal of Western integration, in part through NATO membership, has become the common issue running through the politics of former Moscow satellites with Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia stepping up their campaigns to be among the first wave of new members. |
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| | The World Press Review - East-Bloc Connections Fuel War - Illegal Small-Arms Trade |
| | According to the newspaper, the company, “negotiating between East and West with the blessing of Budapest,” and Mezosy dealt directly with Bosnian and Croatian customers, laundering the money with the help of a Sudanese firm. | | | The Belgian newspaper Le Soir disclosed the workings of this arms-trafficking network, one component of which, according to the newspaper, was Technika, the Hungarian foreign trade company, “which negotiated between East and West with the blessing of Budapest.” | | | The shipping documents for the weapons were forged by Mezosy and the weapons themselves were delivered to customers by the Adria Express, a Croatian vessel based at Otranto and Port Said. |
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| | Death of a Superpower – Collapse of the East Bloc |
| | Again, a peaceful revolution, this time opening the East to the West | | | Tells East European allies that USSR can no longer fully subsidize their economies, and they must reform also | | | how to use the power, influence of the west to help the east |
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