Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Horner said yesterday that as a psychologist, she is interested how an influx of Western values in a developing country like China affects women. Horner will leave for China March 5 as a member of a national policy panel on China relations sponsored by the United Nations Association...
Lately, Ecevit has been passing the hat among the Western powers and the International Monetary Fund with a forceful pitch for the financial rescue of his country. A simple glance at the map−by the light of the flames in Iran−provides him with a powerful new argument...
Viet Nam's motives for twisting the dragon's tail are much less clear. Hanoi might have convinced itself that even a limited Chinese thrust into Viet Nam would bring swift retaliation by some of the Soviet forces arrayed along China's western and northern frontiers. But as for why such tail twisting should now be so popular in Hanoi, some Western observers can only speculate that it is a sign that a group of hard-lining expansionists, led by General Vo Nguyen Giap and Army Chief of Staff Van Tien Dung, are gaining supremacy...
Like fast-approaching storm clouds, the consequences of the political turmoil that shut down Iran's oil fields became clearer last week, presaging a period of trouble and uncertainty for Western nations. Higher fuel prices and some scarcities are inevitable in the U.S. President Carter warned that though the situation created by the Iranian cutoff is "not critical" yet, it "certainly could get worse." He said that the difficulties might be manageable if Americans "honor the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, set thermostats no higher than 65° and limit discretionary driving." Otherwise, the President added, "more strenuous action" would...
...month and lifted the basic price to $13.34 per bbl. The cartel had scheduled a raise in steps to $14.55 by October. But at the present rate of increase, oil from Abu Dhabi and Qatar then would be selling at $16.32 per bbl. Other oil producers, notably such anti-Western militants as Libya and Iraq, are expected to make similar increases. Says one top U.S. oil company official: "I guess now the sky's the limit...