Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of Saudi Arabia, which is not strong enough to be the bulwark of U.S. interests in the Middle East. The Saudis are being criticized by other Arab states for cooperating too closely with the U.S., and the result in Saudi Arabia, Akins reported, "is a growing wave of anti-Americanism that has never happened before...
Second, said Akins, the U.S. must stop "forcing the Saudis into taking actions that are perceived in the government and in the country as a whole as anti-Saudi and anti-Arab. The Saudis tell me: The U.S. is pushing the government into taking positions against our interests in the economic field on oil production, oil capacity, oil prices, and politically is enticing this government to support you on Camp David far more than we think is in the interests of the Arabs...
Iran. The loss of the old ally hurt the U.S. sorely, not only in terms of oil but in the loss of facilities that monitored Soviet missiles. Still, the Islamic government installed by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is likely to be anti-Communist as well as antiWestern, and nonaligned in a true sense. Jim Bill, one of the few Americans who know well some of the people around the Ayatullah, ticked off a list of several who are American-educated, basically conservative, and men the U.S. could deal with to help get Iran's oil flowing again to the West...
...vote was a blow to Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who is already beset by a sharp slide in the polls and a Labor rebellion against his anti-inflation program. But the referendum is not binding, and he can still press for a Scottish assembly, citing the majority vote for it. As long as Callaghan can hold out some hope for the nationalists, he is assured of their support for a while longer, at least...
...beneath the family squabbles and Art Buchwald routines, Good as Gold is a savage, intemperately funny satire on the assimilation of the Jewish tradition of liberalism into the American main chance. It is a delicate subject, off limits to non-Jews fearful of being thought anti-Semitic and unsettling to successful Jewish intellectuals whose views may have drifted to the right in middle...