Word: imperialist
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...pick a vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola at an outdoor café. "It was a reflex action," the photographer explained sheepishly. "In the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola is the archsymbol of the imperialist and the aggressor. But here in Israel it's safe to be an aggressor, no?" He drank the Coke...
...would apply immediately. Undoubtedly the majority of Soviet Jews regard themselves as loyal citizens and would prefer to stay. There are some Jews who, out of either fear or conviction, are prepared to take part in staged press conferences in which they denounce Israel as an imperialist power and pledge their complete allegiance to the Soviet Union. But there is also an embryonic civil rights-type movement among some 100,000 or so young Jews, mostly engineers and scientists. Their goal is to break down the official barriers against their advancement and gain complete acceptance in Soviet society...
...Soviet propaganda outlet for the Far East, Russia has relentlessly attacked the Maoist regime for everything from its Viet Nam policy to its intellectual rigor mortis. Two weeks before the river protocol was signed, Radio Moscow attacked Peking for "cutting down relations with socialist countries while broadening contacts with imperialist countries." What apparently bothered Moscow most was the fact that China's trade with its former ideological allies has dropped from almost $3 billion in 1959 to less than $800 million. China's trade with Russia alone plunged from $2 billion to a puny $57 million...
Thus, when Touré frantically informed the United Nations last week that his country was being attacked by "an imperialist Portuguese invasion," there were a few yawns and even some protests of "Not again!" Even so, the U.N. Security Council held an emergency session and decided to dispatch a five-man fact-finding team headed by a Nepalese general to look into the situation...
...from other countries in the past- is not the fact that everybody's willing to accept it if we win; that's normal. But rather it's things like the student movement, which is the really organized mass segment of the population against the war. There have been anti-imperialist movements in the past but they've been pretty restricted. That's why it would be a great tragedy if the student movement lapses into apathy. Especially when the Saigon student movement really needs support desperately. Because there might be a terrific repression in Saigon any time...