Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt's Arab neighbors: The situation is serious. On my western border, I have [Libyan Strongman Muammar] Gaddafi and the Soviets. In Algeria, whoever is chosen President, I think there will be ten years of instability. [As for Syrian President Hafez Assad], I wonder what would happen to him if he applied what I am applying here: shutting down the concentration camps, bringing in a permanent constitution, a parliamentary system, a multiparty system. The Syrian leaders would not survive one hour...
...himself in the third person"--but never varies in his ribald, poetic, heart-driven rhetoric. Revolutionary and demagogue, seducer and saint, political puritan and sexual adventurer, he sees Kush as an extension of himself--a citadel of purity besieged by the persistent corruption of American capitalism and, worse, Western morals. He rejects it all, railing and carping in Updike's brilliant satirization of tunnel-eyed Marxist bombast, and secures his not-so-willing nation against the world by the sheer power of his will. The only problem is the drought...
...coup would almost certainly mean a bloodbath-"worse than Chile," according to U.S. officials. It was doubtful that the army could effectively run the country or get oil production back to normal. As a Western diplomat observed last week, "The military has proved they can take over the streets, but they can't get people back to work...
When a soldier walked into the shop, he was greeted amiably by the other customers. He assured a schoolteacher: "I want whatever the people want." And what was that? As one Western expert put it last week, "Iranians want a slower pace, a more traditional society. In a Muslim country, the duty of a good government is simply not to interfere in the lives of its people too much and to allow them to live as good Muslims." Whether Iran will get that kind of government is still far from certain...
...program. Apparently left in force is a 1971 central-committee dictum that the W.C.C. does not "pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." Potter declared that most of the dissenters had come from "certain Western countries which are most heavily involved in maintaining the racist systems in southern Africa...