Word: angola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beyond Anti-Colonialism. The erosion of Afro-Asian solidarity is best indicated at the United Nations, where bloc conferences-once the gaudiest of attractions in the General Assembly-are now infrequent. "You can still get what amounts to a bloc vote, on issues like Angola and South Africa," says...
...wrong. Wilson pointed out that 48 countries had already subscribed to sanctions against Rhodesia in the event of U.D.I., and that it would be a simple matter to cut off the nation's oil by embargo. Even though Portugal would probably keep some oil flowing into Rhodesia through Angola or Mozambique, it would be a scant and stopgap measure at best...
Nellson's list runs for 1,736 pages, from Aden (bone sellers, dates, gums and spices) to Zambia (cement makers, mining companies, clothing manufacturers). The International Yellow Pages also locates beeswax in Angola, molasses in the British West Indies, yacht charterers in Cambodia, industrial real estate agents and vodka vendors in the Soviet Union, lawyers in the Fiji Islands, safari services in Kenya, coconut harvesters in Tanzania. Even Pope Paul's Vatican City telephone number is in the book: Vatican City...
...always something in him that could rouse the noisier Republicans to fits of righteous indignation. In the end, too, some of the liberals who had followed him for so long began to revile him. How, they asked, could he stay in the United Nations and defend policies in Angola, in Cuba, in Vietnam, polices they knew were wrong and that he too must have been dissatisfied with. So they joined the politicians who had long since written him off as a man who could not make up his mind, who agonized over his every decision, wavering to one side...
...other hand, Americans may well retain their distaste for totalitarianism as well as for dictatorships--for conditions in Albania and China as well as for those in Angola and the Union of South Africa. It is an extremely difficult policy, that of reconciling the concern for social justice of the radicals with the sense of power-realities of the old-line liberals, but it has one advantage: The Chinese are unlikely to prove any more popular in their attempts to run other people's countries than have the Americans. Then, in the struggle for world begemony, the vital ingredient...