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The agency driving to build this unheralded rival to Western Europe's powerful six-nation Common Market is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or COMECON.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hanoi first joined COMECON, the Soviet-bloc economic organization, then signed a 25-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with Moscow in November.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gorbachev also hinted that he would like to see direct relations, presumably to facilitate commerce, between the European Community and COMECON, the East bloc trading group.

From Time Magazine Archive

In June, as the last Chinese aid technicians went home, Hanoi yielded to longstanding Soviet blandishments and formally jumped into Moscow's economic orbit as a member of the Communist trade alliance, COMECON.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pressures mounted on Romania to cooperate more fully in the Warsaw Pact and to agree to a supranational planning body within the framework of COMECON.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.