Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popular fear and dislike of the Chinese were inflamed all over again by news of China's invasion of Viet Nam. Communist Party activists rounded up several hundred students from Moscow University to demonstrate in front of the Chinese embassy. Though the occasion was less than spontaneous, the demonstrators hurled snowballs, stones and ink pots at the walls and windows with real enthusiasm and relish. At a diplomatic dinner party in Moscow, Soviet maids reportedly even refused to serve the Chinese guests...
...mean anything." Said one Saudi official: "This is not a border clash, it is a full-scale war with the potential to spread in all directions and bring catastrophe to the entire gulf." The Saudis believe that Aden wants to unify the two Yemens by force and fear that after the collapse of American influence in Iran, Washington may not respond strongly enough to Communist subversion in the Arabian Peninsula. The Saudis are also worried about renewed South Yemeni backing of Marxist insurgents in the Dhofar region of Oman, whose rebellion was checked three years ago only with the help...
...week's worries added up to anything worth fretting about at all. In an unseemly intramural squabble, Department of Energy officials kept pressing the White House to make a strong statement on the need to conserve oil supplies, while Treasury aides urged that the President say nothing for fear of spooking currency dealers abroad into dumping dollars. Yet it seemed more likely that a determined U.S. policy to conserve would strengthen the dollar by showing the world that the nation was taking steps to correct its trade deficit...
Some outsiders fear the Moslem revivalism in the revolution. But Robert Wesson, a political scientist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, sees it "not so much as medievalism as a rejection of foreign intrusion. They are not reversing modernization, but giving it a sounder basis in Iranian institutions." Wesson detects a parallel between Islam in Iran and Roman Catholicism in Poland. "There, in a country in a subrevolutionary situation, the Catholic Church is enormously popular because it is the counter to the government - it is the refuge for freedom. It has become the umbrella...
...life. When I took my job 4½ years ago, I had the backing of top management, and even when times weren't good, we were doing the necessary development and investment spending. We operated out of a coordinated organizational thrust, and, very frankly, we just took the fear out of decision making and did what we thought was right. We planned what we were going to do. I think it is very important that we have a consistency in our management, a consistency in our attitude, a consistency in our programming and a consistency in our scheduling...