Word: anti-american
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...Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary loss of life only obscures the progress that is being made toward a constitutional government...
That figure may change as Ky continues to assault the pagodas, or if an anti-American government emerges from the promised Vietnamese elections (which seems improbable considering who will conduct them). But the elections in this country will produce only an ambiguous verdict on the war, and a stalemate on domestic issues. If some kind of a satisfactory conclusion is to be found to the war, it will depend on the initiative of the White House, and not on the 1966 elections
...Viet Cong know the customs of the people, speak their language, and come from the people, while the U.S. soldier is unfamiliar with the culture and bound to make mistakes which can be exaggerated to feed anti-American sentiment...
...that the company should have ignored the voluntary restraint program because it lacks the force of law. Many foreign governments and European companies have been squeezed out in the borrowing crunch or have agreed to hitherto unthinkable terms. "This," says London investment banker Siegmund Warburg, "has stirred up considerable anti-American feeling." Despite such acrimony, more foreigners each year seem happy to hold their wealth in U.S. money...
Another problem is that ACCION, apolitical and even without foreign policy goals like the Peace Corps, is often at loggerheads with the anti-American majority in Venezuela, particularly at the grass-roots level. Then too, as a private organization, ACCION must rely wholly on foundations and corporations for funds. This is sometimes impossible, since ACCION's chief work involves changing community attitudes...