Word: pro-western
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...pours men and money into its former colonies in North and black Africa, restores and broadens the image of French culture throughout the Middle East. Warbling a persuasive siren song, French diplomacy stirs up old affections and new troubles in Asia, tempts Latin America with the prospect of being pro-Western, anti-Communist and anti-American all at once. As the two nuclear giants, the U.S. and Russia, hesitantly grope towards better understanding, France treads heavily on their toes. For months France has quietly been offering its "cordial cooperation" in uniting North and South Viet Nam under a neutralist government...
...black Afro-Shirazi Party polled 54% of the vote. Now the blacks exercised their plurality in a more direct manner. Before the week was out, more than 500 Zanzibaris were dead, and the new government-packed with leftists loyal to Peking and Havana-threatened to make once-somnolent pro-Western Zanzibar the Cuba of the Indian Ocean...
Winding up his visit, the Chinese Communist leader headed for another mixed greeting from Morocco's King Hassan, who maintains diplomatic relations with Peking but is otherwise pro-Western. Chou's major success so far on his tour of North Africa was word that Tunisia, which has no diplomatic ties with either the Communists or the Chinese Nationalists, had decided to give diplomatic recognition to Peking. This week Chou interrupts his safari with a side trip to Albania. In Tirana, Red China's only ideological ally outside Asia, he will get that rare feeling of being...
...said that the time had come for Southeast Asia to "separate the men from the boys" in its battle against Communist aggression. In every sense of the word, Thailand's Premier Sarit Thanarat was a man. A bluff, hard-wenching, hard-drinking soldier, Sarit was also a masterly pro-Western politician who stabilized Thailand's chaotic government and sagging economy, rooted out official corruption and cracked down hard on Communist infiltration. In the "domino" view of Southeast Asia, according to which the collapse of one country could knock over all the others, Thailand alone stood firm, surrounded...
...Communist sympathies, but his Home Minister, Oginga Odinga, is a left-winger who has already set up a state news agency with Russian and Czech help. He is perhaps balanced by Justice Minister Tom Mboya, who is at present politically in the shade, but remains strongly nationalist and generally pro-Western...