Word: anti-american
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...American, and a writer of books, Anais Nin is profoundly anti-intellectual and anti-American...
...Canada, opposition swelled to a feverish anti-American pitch. Canadian newspapers were filled with articles and cartoons denouncing the Amchitka blast. A bitter parliamentary debate caused the State Department and White House to assure the Canadians that their objections had been considered. Demonstrators closed major bridges connecting Canada and Michigan for several hours. U.S. consulates were stoned. Five American-owned companies closed down operations following threats of terrorist bombings of U.S. firms...
...overshadow the rest of the itinerary. Never have a U.S. President and a Japanese Emperor met in the 117 years since Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet of U.S. "black ships" opened feudal Japan to the West. Dwight Eisenhower nearly made it to Japan in 1960, but massive demonstrations by anti-American students in Tokyo forced Ike to turn back. Initially, the plans for the Emperor's tour called for no presidential appearance at Anchorage. Tentatively, Mrs. Nixon or Julie and David Eisenhower were being considered to meet the royal couple; even Vice President Agnew was a possibility, despite his famous...
Frantic Calls. The calm proved shortlived. In what became the most violent week in Saigon since the 1968 Tet offensive, scores of antigovernment and anti-American demonstrations broke out, bringing a rash of firebombings and rock-throwing incidents. The first incident occurred when U.S. Senator George McGovern, a presidential candidate and vigorous opponent of the war, arrived at a Saigon church to attend a meeting of a prison reform committee...
...loyal to Vice President Ky, which are thought to include some marine, airborne and armor battalions, plus six prop-driven Skyraiders at Tan Son Nhut airbase. The U.S. command placed all American installations on alert, mainly to keep G.I.s off the streets of cities where short-lived but ugly anti-American riots had broken out last week...