By all rights, Alsace should be an ideal springboard for France's cultural and economic penetration of West Germany.

Fearing American political, cultural and economic penetration, Stalin eventually forbade Soviet Eastern bloc countries of the newly formed Cominform from accepting the aid.

The Italian government itself, following a policy of political, economic, military, and cultural penetration of the country, granted a number of scholarships to Albanian students recommended by its legation in Tirana.

The authorities decided to apply the plan proposed by General Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez which included a mix of military and cultural penetration together with agreements with local chiefs.

The key reason for the rejection may be the lack of previous cultural penetration of the Islamic Middle East by Western culture, institutions and ideas.

"The United States would be crazy to give up this opportunity for cultural and political penetration," he said.

But now, perhaps because of deeper and deeper cultural penetration, because of growing financial and economic interdependence, the merger once dreamed of is finally coming to pass.

War on Terror has achieved a level of cultural penetration that is relatively rare for a board game.

"Radios, tape cassettes, magazines - that's what I mean by cultural penetration," she said.

Modern technology has advanced Spain's cultural penetration of Latin America as well, much to the delight of cultural nationalists who dread Americanization of the region.