Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evident. Several hundred people demonstrated against the U.S. in downtown Athens, police were called in to guard the American embassy, and hundreds of youths marched on the U.S. consulate in Salonica. An estimated 15,000 people greeted Andreas Papandreou, one of the country's leading leftists and a vocal anti-American, when he arrived at Athens airport after a seven-year exile. "Death to Kissinger!" the crowd shouted...
...Devastating-impeachable," rum bled New Jersey's Charles Sandman, who had been the President's most vocal champion on the committee; now he finally found the "specificity" he had declared lacking in the evidence. When he learned of the news, Iowa's mild-mannered Mayne declared that "the President has today admitted deceiving the American people, the Judiciary Committee and his own lawyer. This is direct evidence...
...Middle East the resignation created ripples of uncertainty. Arab governments were unhappy to see Nixon go; they credit him with the "even-handed" policy that the U.S. has followed so successfully since the October war. The Arabs have their doubts about President Ford, who has been a vocal supporter of Israel. In Egypt, where President Anwar Sadat has staked his hopes for an acceptable settlement on the personal assurances he received from Nixon only two months ago, the resignation news was played down...
...loudest catcalls for constructive ambiguity came from British critics of Kissinger who had a heavy stake in Cyprus. But working-level foreign service officers were also vocal in their complaints against his policy. They thought that the Secretary had ignored early warnings that a Cyprus coup might be in the offing, and that, in order to protect negotiations with Greece on home-port facilities for the U.S. Navy, he had not been forceful enough in criticizing the Greek regime. The U.S. confined its public comment on Greece to support of Cyprus' "independence and territorial integrity and its constitutional arrangements...
...ended up, of course, disappointed. What I learned about America was that there are more trees and fields in the South and more factories in the North, and that besides slight differences in vocal inflection the people you run into driving a car are very much alike...