Word: anti-american
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...adopting a "one-sided attitude," and his press secretary, Dan Pattir, protested that Washington was using "direct, brutal pressure" on Israel. Warned Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan: "If peace negotiations aren't renewed soon ... we will have to start everything from the beginning." In Jerusalem, placard-carrying Israelis staged anti-American demonstrations...
That grisly prospect unleashed a torrent of anti-American rhetoric in Mexico. Said Congressman Salvador Reyes Nevares: "Our government cannot remain impassive in the face of this inhuman measure, which tramples on our dignity." President José López Portillo called the fence-building "a discourteous, inconsiderate act." Editorial Writer Yolanda Sierra in Mexico City's daily Ovaciones dubbed the fence "a tortilla curtain...
...there is anti-American feeling building in the Philippines, we have only one place to put the blame: on ourselves...
Although no country has more ties to the U.S., anti-American feeling now runs higher in the Philippines than at any time since they gained independence in 1946. Increasing nationalism has made many Filipinos resentful of the conspicuous signs of American influence. The U.S. embassy in Manila is one of the largest in the world, with a staff of 813. Even some of Marcos' opponents felt that the U.S. stance on human rights was a crude intervention in Manila's domestic affairs. Local businessmen complain that their coconut oil is heavily taxed when it enters American ports, while...
...U.S.Philippine agreement stipulated that the bases were to be rent free. Marcos may be calculating that the U.S. can now be intimidated into meeting his demands for more than $1 billion in rent over a five-year period. The President has insisted that Philippine foreign policy is not anti-American, but there is no doubt that he has been angered by official U.S. complaints about human rights violations under his dictatorial rule...