Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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President Carter's imposition of a grain embargo on the Soviet Union drew a mixed reaction yesterday from Harvard political experts...
...face of his lackluster campaigning, his astonishing incoherence, and his failure to stake out convincingly different positions on the issues. At year's end Carter was looking much stronger, primarily because his firm yet restrained response to Iran's seizure of hostages led to a classic popular reaction: Let's rally round the President in a crisis...
With Khomeini's encouragement, Muslims ?not all of them Shi'ites?have staged anti-American riots in Libya, India and Bangladesh. In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, a mob burned the U.S. embassy and killed two U.S. servicemen; the Ayatullah's reaction was "great joy." In Saudi Arabia, possessor of the world's largest oil reserves, the vulnerability of the royal family was made starkly apparent when a band of 200 to 300 well-armed raiders in November seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest of all Islamic shrines, which is under the protection of King Khalid...
...American people do not seem upset with the muted reaction of U.S. allies. When asked if they agreed that "the Iranian situation has shown the U.S. has no real friends in the world," 71% said they disagreed. A similar majority (72%) felt Washington's reaction to the crisis had proved to the world that we are "tough and ready to stand up for our beliefs." Nearly half (44%) felt that the U.S. handling of the situation had increased America's prestige abroad; 26% said that U.S. prestige had decreased, while 23% believed there had been "no difference." Nearly...
...Outraged reaction came swiftly from the White House. In the strongest language he has ever directed against Moscow, President Carter, in a televised message, said: "Such gross interference in the internal affairs of Afghanistan is in blatant violation of accepted international rules of behavior." He conveyed the same harsh message to Leonid Brezhnev personally on the rarely used White House-Kremlin hot line. At the same time, the President got in touch directly with Western European leaders and President Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq of Pakistan, among others, in an attempt to obtain a collective condemnation of Moscow. All shared...