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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 63
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  4.     DIED. Comecon, 42, the Soviet-led trading bloc that once
  5. coordinated communist economies around the world; of
  6. irrelevance; in a 15-minute meeting of the nine member states;
  7. in Budapest. Comecon's demise was brought about by the collapse
  8. of communism in what used to be the Soviet Union's East European
  9. satellite states. Attempts to keep the organization up to date
  10. could not keep pace with the rapid transition to free-market
  11. economies.
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