Word: pro-western
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...Greek; the great 19th century statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty the regiments whose instant readiness to fly to Middle East danger spots was supposed to be Britain's main reason for hanging on to the Cyprus base...
Bandaranaike's upset victory over Sir John Kotelawala (TIME. April 16) was apt to prove much more than a change of clothes. Sir John's pro-Western government, it now seemed clear, had been defeated mainly by domestic issues, e.g., a rise in rice prices, failure to please Ceylon's militant Buddhist majority. But domestic issues were all but forgotten as the new government, with strong left-wing and neutralist ties, sounded its first keynotes...
Capitalizing on these grievances, the Communists promise to oust the NATO forces. Two other parties, the Farmers and the Defense, feel that they must offer similar promises if they are to maintain their followers' support. The strongly pro-Western Independence Party consequently stands a chance of losing its parliamentary dominance in June if a leftist coalition succeeds, gaining support on its promises, in winning a majority of seats in the national election...
...Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Governor General Iskander Mirza was formally inaugurated as President, replacing Queen Elizabeth as chief of state. To observe the occasion, the U.S.S.R.'s brush-mustached First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan flew in with an eleven-man Russian delegation. Ignoring the rude remarks directed at pro-Western Pakistan by Bulganin and Khrushchev on their recent visit to India, Mikoyan quickly got down to business. Russia, he said, "is prepared to give Pakistan all the industrial and economic assistance that she wants, with no strings attached...
Last year Sihanouk abdicated the throne, became his own Premier and promulgated a brave pro-Western anti-Communist policy. But after a Tammany-style general election (which he won 100%), Sihanouk found the responsibilities of the premiership niggling, and appointed himself a kind of freewheeling plenipotentiary of foreign affairs...