Word: anti-american
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...anti-American protests in Panama. Anytime that a country as powerful as the United States attacks a small country like Panama, it receives a rebuff not only from Latin American people but also from Americans with good sense. We are a real democracy. Our parliament is composed of blacks, Indians, whites and mixed races. This is Panama. You have to live here to understand it and not to slander...
...rule troubles the Reagan Administration for two reasons. First, the White House justifies its support for the contra rebels primarily by pointing to Nicaragua's lack of democracy. Administration credibility would suffer if the U.S. appeared to be too cozy with dictators. Second, Noriega's attempts to whip up anti-American sentiment and to court countries hostile to the U.S. raise worries about the Panama Canal's future. "Can you imagine what it would be like to have the canal in the hands of a Lebanon-like country?"asks a U.S. official. Whatever pressure the U.S. decides to bring...
...point, about 2500 protesters, yelling "Overthrow the military dictatorship" and "Drive out U.S. imperialism supporting dictatorship" burned U.S. flags and scribbled anti-American slogans on city buses...
...troop garrison in South Korea, the U.S. views that countryas a key Pacific ally and a bulwark against the Soviet-backed North Korean government. Washington was thus taken aback last year, when North Korean slogans began creeping into South Korean protests and student rhetoric turned sharply anti-American. The U.S. has since urged Chun to help defuse the situation by compromising with the opposition on a formula for the transition to democracy. Secretary of State George Shultz, who visited Seoul last week during a ten-day Far East swing, reportedly received assurances that Chun would seek such a compromise. Said...
...students are seeking alliances with the New Korea Democratic Party, the chief opposition force. "They criticized us for being too pro-American, and would not work with us," says Dissident Kim, a powerful party mentor. "Now they are willing to take a more moderate line. True, they are still anti-American, but they have moved away from violence and pro-Communist slogans...