Word: xenophobia
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Sadat has already begun what he describes as a "liberalization in all fields," meaning a far-reaching political and economic overhaul of Egyptian society. His predecessor, Nasser, tried to build Arab socialism by turning the country into a police state: newspapers were censored, telephones tapped and xenophobia was so encouraged that uncomfortable foreign businessmen went home. Today the concentration camps are empty. Moreover, fewer telephones are tapped, and the secret police are at least less visible. The new editor of the semi official Cairo daily al Ahram is Ali Amin, a journalist who spent nine years in exile during...
Western reporters like Burns and Hans-Joachim Bargmann of West Germany's D.P.A. news service are spared that kind of restraint and come through with interesting and revealing pieces from time to time. Burns recently risked official displeasure by reporting fresh evidence of recurring xenophobia: "Foreign residents find themselves sternly questioned by police for photographing Peking street scenes...
...Peking, foreign residents worried about rising xenophobia; distrust of foreigners was also one of the aspects of the Cultural Revolution. They already have cause to be concerned. Last week a sullen crowd of Chinese hauled two French residents of Peking off to the local militia station after they aimed their cameras at women shoveling snow. The Frenchmen had been mistaken for "Soviet spies," police explained after releasing them...
Despite an early announcement that it would welcome the return of outside investors, the military government appeared to be infected with an irrational xenophobia. One reason was the junta's conviction that Chile's chaos had been largely brought about by the Latin American radicals who had been granted asylum by Allende. TIME'S Rauch was picked up by carabineros merely for walking past the burned-out shell of the Socialist Party headquarters in Santiago...
...pressure, two-week visit to Egypt to plump the plan, the Libyan leader discovered that his proposed partner had become recalcitrant, if not downright hostile. Everywhere he went, Gaddafi locked horns with the Egyptian intelligentsia, engaging in heated arguments on everything from Arab unity and Islamic tolerance to Libyan xenophobia. A nonsmoker and nondrinker, Gaddafi has closed all nightclubs and bars in Libya and restored the practice of amputations for thievery-measures which Egyptians hardly want to see extended to their country...