Word: american
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RICHARD NIXON'S first official foreign visitor in the White House last January was Galo Plaza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, and there was a sense of urgency in his call. U.S. relations with the nations to the south were at their lowest ebb in years. The U.S.-conceived Alliance for Progress had been a disappointment, if not an outright failure, and many disillusioned Latin Americans were seriously asking whether the U.S., preoccupied with Viet Nam and domestic crises, really cared. Not until last week, after more than nine months of reassessment, did Nixon give...
Listening More. The President's policy, outlined before the Inter-American Press Association in Washington, called for a more balanced partnership rather than an American-dominated alliance. From now on, the President promised, the U.S. would listen more and lecture less; it would be "guided by a healthy awareness that give-and-take is better than take-it-or-leave...
Emotional Facet. The President approached no issue more gingerly than that of U.S. private investment, one of the most emotional facets of U.S.-Latin American relations. Many countries view U.S. investment as a form of economic colonialism that extracts more than it puts in. "We will not encourage U.S. private investment where it is not wanted or where local political conditions face it with unwarranted risks," Nixon said. "But my own strong belief is that properly motivated private enterprise has a vital role to play." Nixon plainly had in mind Bolivia's recent nationalization of the U.S.-owned Bolivian...
Plainly, the speech signaled a lower profile for the U.S. south of the border and a determination to require Latin American nations to assume from this point on a more active role in guiding their own development. Did it also signal a U.S. desire to disengage? Said a high Administration spokesman: "the answer is no-not disengagement, but re-engagement." Nor would the new policy imply economic isolation, he added. "What it does mean is that we would like to dispel the myth that the U.S. is the instant messiah for miracles." The question remains whether Nixon's proposed...
...across as an incisive, articulate and iconoclastic politician. He labeled the Communists "retrograde bureaucrats," denounced the Czechoslovak invasion, demanded that France withdraw from NATO and called for total worker control of private business. In his campaign for the Assembly, Rocard told audiences that France must discard its "model of American capitalism." He also criticized the Gaullist regime for failing to provide adequate schools and transport for satellite communities like Les Yvelines. Couve, gamely making the rounds of shopkeepers, stressed the need for De Gaulle's worker "participation" program. After the first round of voting, Rocard was barely in second...