Word: leftwards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...areas of competence, especially energy, the President has not provided anything resembling a blueprint for the nation. That would not be in keeping with his temper or his inclinations. "Ford is a prudent, careful builder," says a close friend and adviser. "When he came in, he bent a little leftward. Recently he's been tilting a little rightward." He does not want to provide his opponents on the right, chiefly Ronald Reagan, with any ammunition. But some activists on the White House staff are aware that a problem that is deferred may be harder to cope with later...
...sense of relief. Officials in Bonn and London said they would redouble their efforts within the European Community to mount a multilateral aid program to assist the hard-pressed Portuguese economy. The moderates' victory was interpreted as vindication of Europe's "soft line" to Lisbon's leftward tilt. Said one British official: "I dread to think what would have been the results of the elections if [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger had been allowed to apply his special brand of Realpolitik-probably 50 Communist deputies." Kissinger refused comment on the grounds that the election was an "internal...
...Henry Kissinger's failed Middle East mission. Saudi Arabia's King Faisal was assassinated. In Indochina, the Cambodian government seemed helpless, while President Nguyen Van Thieu's panicking army yielded province by province to North Vietnamese troops. Portugal, a member of NATO, was continuing its slide leftward. All of this presented serious problems for a U.S. recently too preoccupied with the recession to pay a great deal of attention to world events. President Ford ordered a review of all aspects of the nation's foreign policy. To TIME editors, the week's events seemed...
...State Department directed U.S. Ambassador Frank Carlucci to raise these concerns with President Francisco da Costa Gomes and inform him that the leftward tilt was inimical to U.S. and NATO interests. Five other NATO countries officially voiced similar complaints. The Administration was consulting its European allies about means of imposing a kind of quarantine within the alliance. As Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger put it, "It will have to take some symbolic form ? making them outcasts without casting them out." Explained another official: "We would deny access to classified documents that circulate in the alliance and disinvite them...
...final analysis, the implications of Portugal's leftward turn may not be quite so bleak as they would at first appear, at least in the short run. No responsible Portuguese political leader, including Communist Party Leader Cunhal, has suggested that the U.S. give up its airbase in the Azores - yet. But many have hinted that the facility is a question for "later." As for NATO, even the Communists are notably reluctant to make any threats about pulling out of it, repeatedly declaring that "the question is one for five years from...