Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position at a time when change and unrest are sweeping over his two closest Communist neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The last surviving Stalinist ruler in the Soviet bloc, Ulbricht feels ill at ease and isolated. As matters stand today in Eastern Europe, his introduction of such a backward-looking document may make him feel even lonelier...
Glad to Unload. The Russians, on the other hand, have been bending over backward to be nice to Iran. Capitalizing on the Shah's determination to industrialize, they offer him heavy machinery and even fully installed industrial plants, complete with Soviet technicians, in exchange for iron ore and petroleum that the Iranians are only too glad to unload. Five other East European countries have followed Russia's lead, and together they have agreed to build him 19 major factories, 500 miles of railroad and a pipeline that will carry natural gas from the gulf to the Caspian...
Conditional Concessions. Japan, dependent on the U.S. to absorb 30% of its exports, last month sent eight top businessmen to Washington to plead against such backward steps. The delegation returned to Tokyo in gloom. "We are not optimistic at all," said the group's leader, Chairman Kiichiro Sato of Mitsui Bank. "Japanese business must start thinking seriously of countermeasures." As the Japanese see it, the repercussions of U.S. protectionism, both economically and politically, are unestimable...
...Israeli view of the Arabs was also a stereotype. They looked on the Arabs as misled by their leaders. Their picture of them was often that of an uneducated, lazy, somewhat backward mass of people. These people, many Israelis believed, would act differently towards Israel if only they knew better and were told the "truth." Now reality has caught up with both sides. The new encounter has blotted out many of the stereoypes. A visit to the West Bank confirms this...
...Aviv I was told that I would find the occupied West Bank of Jordan poor. One Israeli told me that agriculture was largely unmechanized and therefore backward; that the roads were narrow and bad. He added that the Israelis had now started to improve and widen them. At the Government Tourist Bureau in Tel Aviv I asked how I could get to Nablus, the most prosperous city of the West Bank, some 50 miles from Tel Aviv. I was informed that there was no bus, unless I wanted to travel via Jerusalem. So I went...