Word: westernism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...litany of Western complaints goes back to the beginning of the Carter presidency-the "hit list" of Western water projects, the increasing intrusion of the federal bureaucracy on state and local laws, the general view that the Carter Administration is bent on creating an "energy sewer'' in the West for the greater benefit of the Eastern seaboard...
...Westerners resent the bureaucratic decision to cut Amtrak service, something far more vital to Butte and Cheyenne than to Nashville or Columbus, and the general disregard of the gas crunch until it hit the East. Montana's Democratic Governor Thomas Judge, among other Western Governors, put out an urgent plea to the Department of Energy for help in securing diesel fuel for crop harvesting Said Judge: "I got absolutely nowhere I had to go out myself and buy 75,000 barrels from New York...
...regional corporations created by the act to manage Alaskan native assets. Under his tenure, NANA has built rural schools, offices, rescue stations and even owns a reindeer herd of 4,200 head to provide meat to northwest natives. Hensley, who speaks English, Russian and Inupiaq (an Eskimo language in western Alaska), lost a bid for his state's sole House seat in 1974, but is often introduced by Alaskans as "our next Senator...
...Western intelligence circles had some other suspicions about whodunit. One theory involved a possible Egyptian vendetta for the recent Palestinian guerrilla seizure of the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, which Mohsen is said to have directed. Another was that he was the victim of a plot within the P.L.O., where Mohsen had numerous enemies because of his Syrian connection...
...make sure that men and women swim in separate areas. Steps are being taken to end coeducation in the secondary schools. And several more prostitutes and heroin peddlers were executed. "Don't pay any attention to those who call us reactionaries," admonished Khomeini in a message assailing Western decadence. "We have the future of our young generation to care...