Word: pro-western
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What about the other Moslem states? Husky Iraq, shaky Jordan, pro-Communist Syria, half-Christian Lebanon, oil-rich Saudi Arabia, pro-western Turkey and Iran, all represent separate influences or vacuums of their own. The U.S. is concerned most about Syria and Jordan because neither has a government strong enough to ensure stability. The U.S. hopes that a strong Iraq will exercise a significant gravitational force in the area, is willing then to let nature take its course with Syria and Jordan...
...struggle for peaceful co-existence the free world has been continually on the defensive. Accordingly, its foreign policy has consisted primarily of building or re-building the strength of the pro-western nations, particularly the European democracies. These countries, united within the defense alliance of NATO, were meant to deter aggression through a show of combined strength...
...gulf that separated the two men was immense; for the past nine years Saragat's party has been supporting the pro-Western Christian Democratic coalition; for the past nine years the Nenni Socialists have never voted contrary to Moscow on any major issue...
...conversation that followed were, Saragat later declared, "extremely cordial and weighty, and ended on a positive note." In an astounding shift of position, Nenni for the first time agreed to Saragat's two crucial conditions for reunification: 1) a break with the Communists, and 2) support of a pro-Western foreign policy for Italy...
...Rabat. In prospect for the U.S. are tough negotiations with Morocco over the future of four major U.S. bomber bases. Another delicate problem: Morocco is being courted by 1) Egypt to join its "neutralist" sphere of influence, 2) Iraq, worried by Egyptian expansionism, to link up with the pro-Western Baghdad Pact. State is not passing out advice to Morocco in such a delicate situation, but "believes" that the Moroccans will want to stick to an independent role to get maximum leverage in the air-base negotiations...