Word: anti-british
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...able to deliver only a trickle because of the economic blockade. As the Iranian government withered, the Eisenhower Administration cut off foreign aid. Unrest followed, and angry citizens took to the streets. This prompted suggestions that the communists were coming, even though Mossadegh was as anti-Soviet as he was anti-British. On Aug. 19, 1953, after the deaths of about 300 people in street riots, the 71-year-old Premier was overthrown. He was replaced by a retired army general, Fazollah Zahedi. The American-friendly Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had earlier fled the country, returned triumphantly, resumed...
...they're very easygoing about it - they're not up in arms. When I arrived yesterday afternoon a few cars were on the streets, honking, with young men leaning out of the windows carrying Libyan flags and chanting anti-American and anti-British slogans. But it wasn't a big demonstration. Life appears to be going on as usual, and people are putting a lot of hope in Megrahi's appeal, hoping that he'll be freed...
Cahill said mass movements form a vital part of the Nationalist, or anti-British, fight in Northern Ireland...
Although Adams dosed his speech at the community center with anti-British vitriol, the main thrust of his activities in recent days has been an attempt to put the peace process back on track. Adams believes the I.R.A. would declare a new cease-fire if all-party talks were firmly scheduled. Once the proper negotiating package is put together, says Adams, "the I.R.A. will see it quite clearly and renew the cease-fire...
...documents referred to include a "Declaration of Sovereignty" and some anti-British diatribe over events that happened 200 years ago, hardly a basis for negotiations in good faith. How many people read this package of legislative bills before voting. I wonder...