Word: foe
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White liberals in the target nations, particularly South Africa, were anguished. "This is no way to make a contribution to the solution of the problem of racialism," said Helen Suzman, the South African Parliament's fiercest foe of apartheid. Methodist Leader Tom Parker despaired of support for such action by followers of "a Saviour who spilt no drop of blood but his own." W.C.C. member churches in South Africa all opposed the grants but decided not to quit the council. Prime Minister B.J. Vorster then warned darkly of "government action" if they did not. Last week the white Presbyterian...
...Nixon proposal to double the U.S. contribution to the World Bank's soft-loan fund, from $160 million to $320 million a year. If that measure passes, the diversion to multilateral aid will take a large step forward. Opposition to all such expenditures is widespread. Friend and foe alike, however, will be attracted by one aspect of the Nixon proposals: a substantial cut in the 17,344 full-time and temporary employees of AID. Says one White House official of the employees of the agencies replacing AID: "Think in terms of hundreds rather than thousands...
Critics responded only with more skepticism. Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader, G.M.'s No. 1 foe, dismissed the committee as "a fraud." The organizers of Campaign G.M., a group that has been pressing the company to exercise greater social responsibility, complained that the committee "has no blacks, no women, no consumer representatives or environmentalists." The apparent moral: Only tangible and prompt action will quiet G.M.'s persistent detractors...
...John F. Kennedy: "Let every nation know [power] . . . that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend [power], oppose any foe [power] to assure the survival and the success of liberty [achievement...
...while not wholly satisfying in itself, suggests that Amis is going to be able to do remarkable things with it. One English critic has even maintained that Amis is turning into a satirist whose target is the biggest establishment of them all: creation as a whole. Amis is a foe of such cosmic statements. But he admits that he aspires to a form of "seriocomedy," a combination of "dark stuff with high spirits...