Word: anti-american
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...question, said the Premier. He recalled that when his brother, former Premier Nobusuke Kishi, asked President Eisenhower to come to Japan, such a storm of protest broke out that the visit had to be canceled. "This incident is stuck in my memory," said Sato. Today the same anti-American elements could still cause trouble, "and that would be a case where two brothers would be committing the same sort of error...
...last week when the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise and a task force of destroyers and amphibious ships from the Seventh Fleet sailed into the Bay of Bengal. Although Soviet vessels were reported to be moving toward the area, word of the U.S. move touched off a storm of anti-American demonstrations. In Calcutta, angry protesters burned effigies of Richard Nixon and Yahya Khan. The Seventh Fleet action was justified by the Navy on the grounds that it might have to evacuate American civilians from Dacca. (As it turned out, most of the foreigners who wanted to leave were flown...
...Service. Mrs. Gandhi made several gestures to try to dampen the anti-American feeling, and refused to allow debate in the Indian Parliament on the U.S. moves. But she also sent a long, accusatory and somewhat self-serving letter to President Nixon, in which she argued that the war could have been avoided "if the great leaders of the world had paid some attention to the fact of revolt, tried to see the reality of the situation and searched for a genuine basis for reconciliation." Instead, Mrs. Gandhi said, only "lip service was paid to the need for a political...
...could Canada's Pierre Trudeau. The 10% import surcharge that Washington sprang on its trading partners last August has hurt Trudeau; his political standing has been damaged by Canadian unemployment, hovering stubbornly at 6.6%, and by a steadily growing anti-American opposition. During his day of talks and dinner with Nixon last week, Trudeau's basic question, as one of his aides put it, was: "Are you going to push our heads under water each time we manage to surface?" Trudeau got presidential assurances that the surcharge was not permanent. Nixon compared Canadian dependence on U.S. capital...
Long said that Americans can no longer safely walk the streets in Vietnamese cities because of anti-American feeling there. "Even the upper middle class people in South Vietnam hate the U. S. so much that they will kill Americans walking in the street," he stated...