Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter will also be watching for openings that can lead to a separate Egyptian-Israeli peace. Begin would welcome this?he calls it a "permanent partial peace"?but Sadat has always balked, fearing a backlash from the other Arab states. While U.S. officials doubt that the Egyptian can be coaxed from his position, one Administration staffer advised: "We'll have to see if Sadat's resolve slips...
...since they turn up everywhere: on walkways and city plazas, along bridges and expressways, even in the once hushed corridors of office buildings. America, in short, has become overrun with runners running every which way, including off at the mouth. Not surprisingly, running is now running into a snippy backlash...
Executive Editor Morton Kondracke of the New Republic ventilated his suspicion that the backlash is incited by "a few columnists and freelance writers trying to earn a bit." Yet even he confessed to being put off when a friend learned he was a runner and asked: "Have you experienced euphoria?" No, Kondracke replied. Indeed, he himself admits to complaints "against joggery profiteers"-authors, magazine publishers, dealers in running gear, even some doctors who treat running injuries. Thus, perhaps inadvertently, he joined the backlashers...
...Among them: the owner of the Rex, who was charged with negligence for having ordered his employees to lock the exits to prevent terrorists from entering the theater. But opposition groups outside Iran accused SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, of setting the blaze in order to provoke a backlash against dissident groups. Many Iranians, however, blamed Ayatullah Khomeini, a Shi'ite mullah (religious leader) who has lived in exile in Iraq since 1963. Khomeini swore unrelenting enmity to the Shah after hundreds of his followers were killed while protesting the monarch's land-reform program. Alone among...
Fearing a protectionist backlash, and pressured by the U.S., the Japanese government in April issued an "administrative guidance" calling on producers of steel, TVs, autos, watches and cameras to try to hold exports to or below 1977 levels. So far, the plan has not been working. Exports to the American market alone jumped by 35% in May. Japan's Economic Planning Agency conceded that the nation will ship out $23 billion more in goods than it will bring in this year, and in the process pile up a whopping $9.5 billion surplus with...