Word: pro-western
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...cheers of even many opposition members, Mauroy ended with a description of France's emerging foreign policy that in some ways appeared more staunchly pro-Western than that of former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The U.S. and the NATO countries, he said, were "in the first rank of our allies." At the same time, Mauroy sharply condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and warned against intervention in Poland-a statement that reduced the government's four Communist ministers, who had been applauding earlier remarks, to glum and awkward silence...
Third World. Mitterrand is anxious to increase aid and trade with developing countries, and seems likely to strengthen French support for national liberation movements. He is strongly opposed to dealing with any kind of junta or authoritarian regime, no matter how pro-Western, and has sharply criticized U.S. involvement in El Salvador...
...first it looked like a shrewd way to expand U.S. influence in oil-rich, pro-Western Saudi Arabia, without unduly roiling its troubled near neighbor Israel. But by last week the prospective deal had turned into something of an Arabian nightmare. By spelling out just what would be included in $5 billion worth of modern weaponry, which he intends to sell to the Saudis, Ronald Reagan set a time bomb ticking toward an explosive congressional battle over his foreign policy...
...Hussein of Jordan and the Saudi leaders on what they consider the more immediate and dangerous problem of Israeli intransigence on the issue of Palestinian autonomy. Haig argues that such statements were predictable and do not necessarily reflect those governments' true feelings. But public polemics beween himself and pro-Western Arabs over who constitutes the biggest threat to the region only accentuate the impression that the Administration has so far failed to come up with effective new initiatives for the Middle East...
...this is regarded as welcome, if overdue, by the pro-Western governments in East Asia, as well as most of the neutral ones. Says Hisahiko Okazaki, a top strategist of Japan's Defense Agency: "As we see it, the Americans are coming back. There seems to have been a psychological change in American public opinion, largely in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...