Word: backlasher
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...become fashionable to deal with and be flexible over relations with China. I welcome the change in mood, but am pessimistic about the ability of the U.S. to influence Chinese policy." If this turns out to be the case, Pye said, then there is the distinct possibility of a backlash by disillusioned Americans which will make future relations with the Chinese more difficult...
Moynihan was interviewed by CBS News in an hour-long program on 'Black Power-White Backlash...
...Reverse Backlash. In Nashville one parishioner canceled a $500 pledge to Calvary Methodist Church after the pastor, the Rev. Sam R. Dodson Jr., led a protest march of ministers against segregation; another layman at once raised his pledge by $500. In Alabama, when one Presbyterian church cut off the minister's car allowance because he had helped out-of-state civil rights demonstrators, a group of laymen within the church formed a committee to make up the difference out of their own pockets. Presbyterian Frank H. Stroup, chief executive of the Philadelphia presbytery, acknowledges opposition to his church...
Alaskan Rivers. Washington officials warned that a boycott could have a severe backlash in Japan, which imports more goods from the U.S. each year ($1.9 billion) than it exports to the U.S. ($1.7 billion). The U.S. State Department, noting tactfully that the Japanese are within the letter of the law, also called on Japanese fishermen to show moderation in working their nets. While the controversy continued, more than 200 Japanese catcher boats busily worked on the permissible side of the 175th degree of longitude. On the coast, U.S. fishermen waited anxiously to see how many sockeye would survive the journey...
...Negro vote went Republican, compared to roughly one-third in both 1956 and 1960. In Ohio the Negro vote dropped from 29% for Nixon to 2% for Goldwater-accounting for the defeat of Robert Taft Jr. in his senatorial campaign. At the same time, the Northern white backlash did not develop: Goldwater failed to carry a single county in Maryland, Indiana and Wisconsin, where Alabama's Governor George Wallace had run strongly in presidential primaries...