Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...receive the most-favored-nation status enjoyed by a great many countries. Nor did the U.S.S.R. obtain the substantial American credits on which it had counted to finance purchases of Western technology. These benefits were blocked when Congress in 1973 and 1974 linked them to the easing of Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., something the Soviets regard as interference in their internal affairs. In the 1976 presidential campaign, moreover, Gerald Ford publicly excised 'detente" from his vocabulary...
...President deftly handled a question about his attitude toward Communist political parties in Europe. He said flatly that he would "prefer that Communism would be minimal in the Western world." But the U.S., he added, has no intention of interfering in the politics of other nations. "We trust the judgment of free people in free nations to make their own determination that Communism is not in their best interest," he said. And the way to limit the growth of Communism, he emphasized, was "to make democracy work." Repeatedly, Carter urged his listeners to speak up for human rights, including...
...meeting showed that the President is more lucid and at ease in a conversational setting than when delivering formal speeches. From Berlin, Carter returned to Bonn, where his ability to argue persuasively across a table was to be tested in a tough forum: the two-day meeting of seven Western leaders seeking ways to stabilize the world economy. And if, after the Berlin visit, Helmut Schmidt was not yet Carter's warmest friend, he could hardly help having been impressed by his tireless guest...
They are like a scattered army-you can't shoot them all." So said Farmer Ivan Josserand of Stanton County in western Kansas last week, as he fought a losing battle against swarms of grasshoppers chewing up his alfalfa and corn fields. In Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County Agent Monte Hendricks counted up to 50 hoppers per sq. yd., five times the number usually considered to be disastrous. Said he: "On the fringes of some bean fields there is nothing left but stubs...
Keenan said the total Soviet working force "is becoming younger and non-Russian." The working force in industrialized areas of the western Soviet Union, however, "is declining, threatening the industrial combines," he added...