Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford facing Ronald Reagan's challenge on the right and Kissinger facing a contempt-of-Congress citation. The Chinese believe the Secretary of State is also on the defensive for his pursuit of detente with the Soviet Union, which they regard as a cave-in by Washington to imperialist Moscow's blandishments. In October, when Kissinger visited Peking for four days to prep for the Ford trip, he was openly lectured on the "illusions" of a policy the Chinese consider to be appeasement...
...subject of the Panama Canal unites South Americans. The Zone is seen as an odious relic of the imperialist age. All the governments support the Panamanians' demand for a new treaty granting them unmistakable sovereignty over the Zone, with details of canal operations and U.S. military presence to be negotiated. General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's strongman, is willing to wait until after the U.S. election for the new treaty (he has heard of the "Teddy Roosevelt lobby"). But something must give in 1977. He speaks of restraining "the students" (at the University of Panama) as another general...
...Imperialist Ideology. American Jews were even angrier. At a mass rally in Manhattan, 40,000 people waved Zionist banners, sported buttons proclaiming I AM PROUD TO BE A ZIONIST and hoisted placards charging that the U.N. had succumbed to Nazism. Black Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin cited the Arabs' long involvement in the African slave trade. "Shame on them!" thundered Rustin. "[They] are the same people who enslaved my people...
...Kippur War of 1973, which represented unmistakable threats to the existence of Israel. Arab leaders frequently make a distinction between Judaism, which they claim to respect as a biblical religion that is a spiritual precursor of Islam, and Zionism, which they see as an outdated colonialist and imperialist ideology imported from Europe. The Jewish answer is that today this is a distinction without a difference: attacking Zionism means threatening the very existence of Israel...
...here because Ford has ignored high unemployment, hunger and racism, and has supported pro-imperialist wars abroad to prop up a tottering economy," Bonnie Bishop, organizer of the November 7 Coalition, which sponsored the rally, said last night...