Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since czarist times, the rulers of Russia have probed southward, seeking access to the southern sea lanes that are now major oil routes and thus the lifeline of the industrialized world. So far, the Western powers have succeeded in thwarting the Russians. In the 19th century the British Empire, from such places as Ottoman Turkey, Persia and the frontiers of India, intrigued and battled against Russian expansion. Britain's Prime Minister Lord Palmerston seemed to delight in all the machinations; to him, in a phrase first attributed to Rudyard Kipling, it was "the great game." In the 20th century...
...obviously trumped-up charges that he had violated Soviet law by exchanging $8,500 for 20,000 rubles with Soviet black marketeers over a 14-month period. (At the official exchange rate, $8,500 buys 5,903 rubles.) Despite Crawford's protestations of innocence, along with what Western court observers called an unusually spirited defense by his Soviet lawyer, the defendant was found guilty and given a five-year suspended sentence. No less a court observer than Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev had predicted as much in a recent Moscow conversation with visiting California Oilman Armand Hammer...
...nondescript Chinese restaurant near the Düsseldorf railroad station. She alerted the police. Minutes later, two plainclothesmen walked into the restaurant, sat down, studied their quarry for a couple of minutes. Then they rose, approached Stoll and ordered him to surrender. Dropping his hands like a Western gunfighter, Stoll reached for a 9-mm. pistol concealed in his jacket. Before he could draw, he was hit by a barrage of bullets. He died 40 minutes later during surgery. West Germans could not take much comfort from this police success. Stoll's comrades were not only still...
...challenged only by Control Data. Even though embargoes prevent U.S. companies from selling South African manufactured goods in almost all black African markets, most of the firms are thriving on domestic sales alone. Says Dick Strain, the local head of Eli Lilly: "South Africa has the sophistication of a Western market and the development potential of a Third World country...
Quebec Iron and Titanium Corp., which is owned by Kennecott Copper and Gulf & Western, has persuaded its four South African partners to adopt the Sullivan Code in their new mining venture in Zululand. Boasts Q.I.T. President Pierce McCreary: "We have been a very positive force in South Africa...