Word: pro-western
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...these circumstances, the bitterest and most extreme of the fedayeen have turned to Black September. It surfaced for the first time last November in Cairo, where four terrorists boldly assassinated Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell as he entered the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel. Tell was a pro-Western Arab interested in negotiating with Israel; his killers are out of jail on bail awaiting a trial that has yet to be scheduled. Since that time, Black September teams have also murdered five Jordanians living in West Germany whom they suspected of spying for Israel; attempted to assassinate Jordan's ambassador to London...
...fact that he is Jewish (a contention that the Arabs privately denied). The Soviets also vetoed another contender strongly favored by Washington: Argentina's popular Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, who, like Jakobson, gave every promise of making the most of the job and moreover came from a strongly pro-Western country...
Mutual Fears. The Greek-Albanian example is part of a growing trend toward regional cooperation. The area is divided into five political camps: pro-Western, nonaligned, Maoist, and two variations of Moscow-oriented Communism. But leaders of the Balkans, motivated mainly by pragmatic economics and a desire to keep big powers from exploiting the region's problems for their own purposes, are making efforts to end old disputes. Yugoslavia, for example, has ended its old quarrel with Albania and is granting greater autonomy to the Albanian minority within its borders...
What Hassan did not know was that rebellious junior officers in his 50,000-man army were planning to crash the party and topple his pro-Western regime. His guests were hardly seated for lunch beside Skhirat's swimming pool when some 30 truckloads of mutineers rolled up to the palace and began raking it with machine guns, grenades and mortars...
...happened only once, in 1958, when Marines waded onto Beirut beaches strewn with Coca-Cola bottles and suntanned bathing beauties to protect a pro-Western Lebanese government from a coup...