Word: anties
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...important to the U.S. strategically and geopolitically. This is because of Iran's pro-Western stance, its location on the Soviet border, its relations with its important but far less stable neighbors, and its moderating role in the Middle East. The Shah is, in short, a bulwark of anti-Communism at the confluence of the Persian Gulf oil routes (see following story...
Turkey is preoccupied by its enmity with Greece. Pakistan is distracted by its fear and hatred of India. At the same time, Turkey and Pakistan both face their own versions of the resurgent Islamic anti-Westernism and conservatism that now threaten the Shah. Pakistani mullahs last year played a key role in bringing down the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and precipitating martial law. In Turkey, politically active Muslims could hold the balance in the next government crisis...
...trifle in August-President Carter and his economic advisers are under no illusion that they can claim any credit. Quite the contrary: consumer prices for the year are likely to rise 8% or even more, and the Administration is feeling public fury. As S. Lee Kling, chief deputy to Anti-Inflation Czar Robert Strauss, told fellow policymakers on returning from a trip, "You guys wouldn't believe what's happening out there. They're barely polite to me in St. Louis. They're throwing eggs at me in Atlanta. People are really riled...
...Carter's economic-policy team has begun making final recommendations for a Stage Two anti-inflation program. Aides aim to put on the President's desk late this week specific proposals for tougher measures to follow up the ineffective ones that Carter announced last April. The likely centerpiece: a set of specific standards that labor and industry will be asked to follow when raising wages and prices-possibly backed by the threat of federal penalties against violators...
...parts of South Africa. The Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black minister from Philadelphia and a director of General Motors, has been urging a strict code of conduct for U.S. companies in the land of apartheid and demanding that they actively help black workers overcome various bars to forming unions. Anti-apartheid protests stand to intensify on campuses this fall, and many universities and foundations have decided to sell their shares in corporations operating in South Africa. Concedes a ranking General Electric executive: "No responsible firm today could ignore the concerns of large blocks of shareholders in the churches and universities...