Word: backlasher
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...would not have saved Saddam in any case, though. Strong as the Arab anger was, it was not quite sufficient to shake the governments (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria) that have made major troop commitments to the coalition. The U.S. and its European allies suffered little if any public backlash against the war. In retrospect, generals played down too much the inevitability of civilian deaths in any bombing campaign. But Westerners, while shocked, seemed to accept the explanations that the U.S. was not directly targeting civilians; that Saddam in contrast was deliberately putting them in harm's way by placing...
...that timetable could grind to a halt amid fresh outbreaks of black- against-black violence or a growing backlash from disaffected whites. Less than 24 hours after Mandela and Buthelezi embraced last week, an A.N.C.-Inkatha clash killed at least eight people and injured 60 others in Natal province, where most of the country's 6 million Zulus live. In Pretoria police used nightsticks and tear gas to battle 5,000 white farmers who paralyzed traffic by parking farm vehicles on downtown streets. Backed by the Conservative Party and the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, the protesters demanded...
...that a financial downturn has arrived, cabbies are feeling the backlash of that period of prosperity. "When the recession finally hit it really took a bite out of the industry," Anastasio says...
...nobody has seemed to notice. The blaring front-page headlines that announced Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation have disappeared now that the Soviet foreign minister's dire predictions of imminent dictatorship have come true. Just as Kruschev's 1956 invasion of Hungary was overshadowed by the concurrent Suez crisis, the backlash in the Baltics has been buried on page nine, shunted to the background by Bush's moralistic pursuit of his New World Order...
...bolstering those ties with foreigners, the gulf and Saudi rulers must carefully balance external threats with internal ones. Even the smallest step toward the Western camp risks a backlash from the religious right, especially in puritanical Saudi Arabia. From the beginning of the gulf crisis, there have been ominous rumblings in the Saudi mosques -- and indeed throughout the Muslim world -- about the apostasy of having infidels defend the country that is host to Islam's holiest places. There could be increased demands on the oil sheikdoms to share more of their wealth with poorer states in the region...