Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member American Conservative Union, meanwhile, has been mobilizing grass-roots opposition. It has produced a 30-minute anti-SALT film that so far has been shown on 209 television stations. ACU plans to commit far more to fighting SALT than the $1 million it spent in vain on the Panama Canal struggle. Says one Administration official: "Compared with SALT II, passing the Panama Canal treaties was playing tiddlywinks...
...Shah turned to was Shahpour Bakhtiar, 63, an outspoken opponent of the regime and a prominent member of the anti-Shah National Front. He too seemed to have compromised. Denying rumors that this was the first stage of a plan for the Shah to give up all his powers and abdicate the throne, a close confidant of the Shah declared: "There is absolutely no question of the Shah stepping aside or stepping down. His decision is to enforce the constitution...
...Middle East and Asia Minor where instability invites Soviet adventurism. Saudi Arabia, in particular, has become increasingly skeptical of America's resolve to safeguard the Arc, and, according to some unconfirmed reports, has opened discreet diplomatic channels to Moscow. There is little chance that so virulent an anti-Communist state as Saudi Arabia would seriously consider any accommodation with the Soviets, but the very fact that it is talked about at all produces understandable concern in Washington...
Macabre as the garments seemed, the wonder was that there was any joking at all among the 30,000 U.S. citizens remaining in Iran. For most of them-Government employees, military advisers, businessmen, technicians, teachers-life has been a matter of steadily rising tension, isolation and harassment as the anti-Shah demonstrations have taken on an ever more anti-American tone. Most have endured it anxiously but stoically. Says a U.S. oil executive in a southern oil-producing region: "So many of us have sent our families away and are half packed that there aren't many more measures...
...this merrily repressive time was not going to last for long, and there were some hints, even in those days, that things were going to change. The questioning, anti-social youth hero who became so prevalent in the '60s was an outgrowth of the discontent that the structured '50s produced, especially among the younger people in the country. Rock and Roll emerged; for the first time black music and white music tentatively merged, a synthesis that gained tremendous popularity. The movies too, began to show some shift in outlook among the kids growing up in America. The confused, "unrespectable" heros...