Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East Asia and Pacific Affairs. The longtime career diplomats at State also have more influence. Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, is with Vance in the Middle East, and will accompany him later to China. George Vest, a 30-year State veteran, is Assistant Secretary for European Affairs and is significantly helping to coordinate Soviet-American relations...
...anticipate now what our position would be. I would try to marshal the support of the leader, first of all. Secondly, the opinion of his people back home, the constituencies that might exist in our own country that would have influence around the world, opinion that exists in the European Community, and in the Arab nations as well...
Kissinger has turned down hundreds of calls for interviews, articles, conversations with the press. He has held off invitations to visit every country in the Middle East, European nations, China (with no restrictions on where he can go), Japan and the Soviet Union. Before long he will take up some of the offers, but he will not go to any country before Vance has been there...
...programs in Congress; they have been concerned about the growing U.S. trade deficit and fretful that a big increase in the money sup ply in recent weeks might prompt the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit and thus trigger a rise in interest rates. Another drag on the market: European investors, who have been nervous about the sinking value of the dollar (see following story) and the growing U.S. trade deficit. One analyst, William LeFevre, of Granger & Co., says flatly: "The market slump can be related to the dollar's weakness. Europeans are now selling, and they...
...while, Meinhof cranked out ideological justifications for the mayhem. For those with memories of the Third Reich, the incidents and propaganda had a chilling familiarity. Substantial segments of the European left began to praise the gang's actions as justified retaliations against the excesses of capitalism. The praise increased the gang's arrogance-and may have contributed to its fatal carelessness. Once the West German federal police set up special squads to cope with the terrorists. they found their quarries easy prey. In 1972 Baader blundered into police hands by racing up to a clandestine bomb factory...