Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ultimately, the argument that is most likely to force the Arab govern ments to reconsider their policy of eth nic economic discrimination is that they run the risk of a backlash against the boycott when they begin to invest their oil billions in Western countries in a big way. As President Ford put it bluntly last week: "Foreign businessmen and in vestors are welcome in the United States when they are willing to conform to the principles of our society...
...perhaps indefinitely, the Provisionals' bitter rejection of the truce re-emphasized the basic problems of the conflict itself. Neither the British government nor the I.R.A. ever seemed prepared to concede very much. The British diplomatic moves during the truce were tempered by fear of triggering a violent Protestant backlash while being drawn into a trap by the I.R.A. The government was also counting heavily on its judgment that the Proves were mainly intent on arranging a face-saving formula that would allow them to end a losing war. Thus Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Merlyn Rees, despite repeated...
Christmas Cards. The anti-Israel measures, however, have caused a substantial backlash. Switzerland has cut its UNESCO contribution by 10%, and France threatens to follow suit; the U.S. is about to suspend its $19.5 million contribution to UNESCO's $77.9 million 1975 budget. Israel has announced it is suspending payment of its dues. Many Americans are refusing to buy UNICEF Christmas cards this year, even though the U.N.'s Children's Fund has nothing to do with UNESCO...
LEGISLATORS IN WASHINGTON are whipping up a backlash against affirmative action programs that aim at righting the for-too-long-wrong numbers of blacks, women and other minorities employed in higher education...
Kansas DOLE v. ROY Kansas is one state where the G.O.P. incumbent may be saved by a Watergate backlash. At least he is doing his best to help it along. In mid-October, Senator Robert J. Dole, 5 1 , was hard to recognize in his TV spots...