Word: anti-american
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...moment, Ben Bella's performance succeeded in distracting attention from the deeper problems of economic chaos, political dissension, and simmering rebellion in Kabylia, where guerrillas last week reportedly kidnaped government officials and whisked them into the hills. At the same time, the regime stepped up its anti-American campaign with the charge that U.S. pilots had airlifted Moroccan troops to the border. Despite U.S. official denials, the accusation seemed at least partially accurate. Four days before the fighting broke put, pilots of the U.S. Air Force training mission in Morocco ferried troops in six C-119s...
Indeed, by the time she stepped off a Pan American jet from Paris, wearing a brown ao-dai, the lions were really roaring. In the Senate, Ohio Democrat Stephen Young blasted her as "arrogant" and "viciously anti-American." At a Cleveland banquet, Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays growled, "It's bad enough that every two-bit dictator around the world reviles and insults the U.S. at will, but it is too much to let this comic-strip Dragon Lady do it under our very noses." One high State Department official, noting that Mme. Nhu had been invited...
...Unless Havana's myriad censors slip up, these three men send out nothing that Castro does not approve of. Their dispatches are limited almost entirely to government communiqués and the anti-American salvos fired in perfect unison by Castro's captive Havana press. Although Castro keeps up the fiction that there is no press censorship, the Western newsmen know otherwise. Cables are often held up for days or forever; the Western Union office, staffed by Cubans, will not even acknowledge that a message has been sent, much less received. "Some times," says Harker, "not even...
...authorization had come to the House floor only after a highly skeptical report was made by the Foreign Affairs Committee. Why, asked the committee, should the U.S. taxpayer be required to help an anti-American, Communist-leaning country like Indonesia? The report questioned the wisdom of continuing open-handed aid to the politically unstable Near East-Israel and its Arab enemies. It recommended that Congress consider the "withholding of economic assistance from those countries which persist in policies of belligerence and in preparations for their execution." It suggested drastic reductions in aid to both India and Pakistan until they settle...
...move had been Brother Nhu, head of the 10,000-strong special forces and secret police. For weeks there had been hints that he might try a coup of his own-supposedly to forestall the anti-Diem coup that he kept predicting unless the Buddhists were put down. Any change in government policy, he had warned, would be "anti-Buddhist, anti-American, anti-weakness...