Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interested in movements of anti-colonial and anti-imperial liberation . . . that make people in Washington uncomfortable." To substantiate this contention, Prof. Rotberg writes-inter alia-that he was "specifically invited to the Center nine long years ago in order to undertake a study of anti-British political movements in Africa...
This is precisely the point, and Professor Rotberg has- I fear-unwittingly lent powerful support to a grave charge that has often been directed against American interest in anti-colonial movements in Africa and elsewhere. Critics of American State Department "anti-colonialism" have argued that this policy was dictated primarily by the need to eject the old European colonial Powers from Africa and Asia. That having accomplished this task with the debacle and dissolution of the old Empires, the United States took fright at what it discerned as a "power vacuum" which it feared might be filled by indigenous revolutionary...
...Slim, 61, Tunisian diplomat who in 1961 became the first African to be elected president of the U.N. General Assembly; of liver disease; in Tunis. A onetime revolutionary who was twice jailed by the French during his country's struggle for freedom, Slim nevertheless ranked as one of Africa's more moderate, pro-Western diplomats. With Tunisia's independence in 1956 he became simultaneously Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador to Canada and Tunisia's permanent representative to the U.N.; in 1961, by a vote of 96-0, he was elected president of the General Assembly...
...past decade have been derived from the interests of its principal members. These have shifted over the years from the traditional concerns of foreign policy with security and the North Atlantic region to a major emphasis on the economic, social, and political aspects of modernization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The primary interest of many Center scholars is now comparative studies of countries in these areas, with international affairs as a byproduct...
...intimate familiarity with the repellent conditions in towns used as bases for American business ventures is boldly apparent in the film. He built an entire town from scratch for his set north of Nimes in France, and was even toying with the idea of moving the set to North Africa to evoke the appropriate atmosphere. The set is reminiscent of the milicu one generally sinks into in a Graham Greene novel - remote, desolate, and treacherous...