61.   We will also have reaction from former Eastern bloc countries Hungary and Poland.

62.   Former Eastern bloc contries and China have stepped up imports of the tropical beans to manufacture chocolate to satisfy the demands of ever more sweet-toothed populations.

63.   From the Middle Ages its rolling plains provided major exports to western and northern Europe, while under communism it exported to the eastern bloc states.

64.   He cited a report which stated the intelligence services of former eastern bloc and Soviet states were concentrating on economic espionage to boost their efforts toward a market economy.

65.   He spoke at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after signing the Partnership for Peace program of military cooperation between NATO and former Eastern bloc states.

66.   In response to journalists questions Kozyrev denied Russia wanted the power to prevent its former Eastern bloc partners from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

67.   In the Soviet Union, Georgian wine was a favourite throughout the eastern bloc.

68.   At the meeting the Alliance is expected to issue invitations to several former eastern bloc countries to join.

69.   Berzin is set to become the first rider of the former Eastern bloc to win one of the major Tours -- France, Italy, or Spain.

70.   But political liberalisation remains anathema for a regime which watched the collapse of its eastern bloc sponsors with horror.