Word: anti-american
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...right-wing government immediately threw Andreas into Athens' dread Averof prison. Freed after eight months, he moved to Stockholm, then to Toronto. It was there that his anti-American and anti-NATO sentiments blossomed. Papandreou loudly claimed that the CIA had engineered the colonels' coup, and blamed Western Europeans for not opposing the military regime more strongly. To Papandreou, Greece's ancient enemy Turkey, also a NATO ally, is more of a threat than the Soviet Union. That notion was reinforced in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, an independent island nation with a predominantly Greek population...
When foreign ministers and United Nations ambassadors from 93 Third World delegations concluded a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 28 by issuing a one-sided anti-American communique, few delegates took much notice. After all, the 21-page declaration had been designed and pushed through by Cuban Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca Peoli, hardly an admirer of the U.S., and it repeated the standard litany of Third World gripes about American power. But the reaction of American U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was anything but routine...
...against a generous arms sale policy is as compelling as the one for it. The most vivid example of the limitations of weaponry to win friends and influence countries is Iran: after $10 billion of arms deliveries, the Shah was deposed and replaced by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's violently anti-American regime. The occasional success that the Soviets and Americans have had in wooing each other's clients proves that the influence secured by sales can be less than lasting. As Andrew Pierre puts it: "Longterm weapons are sold to what may be short-term friends...
Trying to attract middle-class voters, Papandreou has toned down some of his earlier stands, but they are still anti-NATO and anti-American. Papandreou once favored Greek withdrawal from NATO; now he says the step should not be taken until Greece can defend itself, a long-term prospect, at best. He sees Turkey, his country's traditional rival, as the main threat, not the Soviet Union. His election would probably widen the split between Greece and Turkey, and thus further weaken NATO'S southern flank. Papandreou used to demand that the U.S. abandon its four bases...
Ironically, the man who remains so anti-American has close personal ties to the U.S. He sought refuge in the U.S. in 1940 after being jailed for leftist activities...