Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khomeini's ominous silence was further evidence of a developing split between the exile and more moderate Shi'ites within Iran. Khomeini is not only supported by radical Iraq and Libya but also is suspected by Western intelligence sources of receiving encouragement from the Soviet Union as well. Muslim leaders object not only to Khomeini's flirtation with the left but to the fact that his adherents in Iran use gangland tactics to frighten moderates...
...second group, headed by Acting President Moi, is made up of politicians and business leaders who are mainly Western educated. Their power is derived from their wealth and urban business connections. Moi, a hard-working but color less politician, is actually a member of the minority Kalenjin tribe. But he is strongly supported by two competent Kikuyu members of the Kenyatta Cabinet, Attorney General Charles Njonjo, 58, and Finance and Economic Planning Minister Mwai Kibaki...
...Kikuyu, particularly if he were to name an able Kikuyu as his Vice President and heir apparent. Since all political factions were committed to the appearance of a constitutional transition, it seemed improbable that the country's nonpolitical army would choose to intervene. "Calling in the military," observed a Western diplomat in Nairobi, "is the very last thing anybody wants...
...describing the life and customs of the Kikuyu in a golden, pre-European past. The book contained a photograph of a bearded Kenyatta carrying a spear and wearing a blue monkey cloak slung over his shoulder?all fabricated to make him look more like a tribal elder than a Western student. He was, as British Author Elspeth Huxley once observed, "a showman to his fingertips...
...where they please. But Chairman Alfred Kahn, a free-market advocate, is worried about one of its side effects: pressure on smaller carriers to seek mergers with bigger ones. Besides the Pan Am-National deal, at least two other mergers are in the talking stages, Continental with Western and North Central with Southern. In interviews with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, Kahn said he would take a dim view of mergers that seem to amount to a search for "a security blanket." Potential merger partners, he added, would bear a "heavy burden" of proof that their union would not reduce competition...