Word: pro-western
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...measures necessary. If Khrushchev, instead of damping down the dangerous fire in Laos, chose to fan the flames, the U.S. reaction would be immediate. For every two guns the Communists sent to the Pathet Lao. the U.S. was prepared by way of "escalation"' to ship three to the pro-Western army of Premier Boun Oum and his strongman, General Phoumi Nosavan...
...what good does it do us to know that the best proposals Dr. Kissinger can think up are too one-sided for the Russians to accept? If the overthrow of East Germany is impossible without a war, how can an arms control plan based on a united and pro-Western make any sense at all? Kissinger does not rule out a neutralized Germany, but his definition of acceptability is tantamount to the same un- Soviet Society," so often invoked as the inevitable outcome of history and the prelude to peace. Such a transformation, he argues, is not only unlikely...
Strongest of the new groups appears to be the New Turkey Party, led by pro-Western Ekrem Alican, 45. Trained at the London School of Economics, handsomely smooth Alican was a Democrat who broke with Menderes five years ago. He was the junta's Finance Minister until he quit two months back to gather together his New Turks. Alican made up for the lack of a party program by circumspect courting of ex-Democrats. ("Many honest people voted Democratic, and they will be welcomed by us.") But when the party's ten founders applied for permission...
...training ground and rest camp for 18,000 F.L.N. rebels-nearly the size of his own army. To some degree, Bourguiba is a captive in his own country. He must remain scrupulously polite to his guests, yet keep diplomatic channels open with France; he must reconcile his personal pro-Western feelings with his role as a fighter for Moslem unity and North African independence. He has enemies on either side: Egypt's Nasser sneers that Bourguiba is a Western stooge; Morocco's King Mohammed V was enraged last fall when Bourguiba recognized the independence of Mauritania, which...
...awareness of danger on the left. But Mr. Lumumba offered only the friendship of an independent Congo, while the government seemed to demand the commitment of a dependent nation. Making a pathetic joke out of respect for "duly elected" government, the U.S. transformed the definition of "duly elected" into "pro-Western," by favoring the Katanga secessionists instead of remaining neutral...