1.   Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim.

2.   ...the former Soviet bloc.

3.   A springtime of entrepreneurship in the old Soviet bloc after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

4.   Further acts of aggression by the Soviet bloc seemed possible in a number of vulnerable regions such as Germany and Yugoslavia.

5.   The president himself ordered studies of the feasibility of tougher policies than had been been pursued under Truman against the Soviet bloc.

6.   In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states.

7.   Among others, China, parts of Latin American and the former Soviet bloc, even Israel, fit that category.

8.   American forces also are learning from former Soviet bloc forces in an attempt to forge new relationships.

9.   Are these interesting geopolitical trends the very last vestige of the old Soviet bloc?

10.   Approval made the United States the fifth NATO member to sign off on adding the three former Soviet bloc countries.