Word: anticolonialists
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...MARLEY The Third World found a voice in rock 'n' roll when the legendary Jamaican and his Wailers took their Rastafarian, anticolonialist reggae to an international audience...
...attrition in the bush. Its target, the pro-Soviet government in Luanda, relies heavily on some 30,000 Cuban troops, much as the South Vietnamese government relied on American forces until 1975. UNITA's principal backer is South Africa, but Savimbi has visited Washington as frequently as some anticolonialist revolutionaries used to visit Moscow...
...willingness of Africa's leaders to confront their parlous economic circumstances has eroded the appeal of Soviet Marxism. Except in Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique, Moscow's attempts to play on the anticolonialist sentiments of Africans have foundered. For one thing, Africans have discovered that education, customs and trade still tie them more closely to Western Europe. They have also observed that experiments in Marxist socialism have largely been unsuccessful. One of the best examples is resource-rich Ghana, where the four-year-old government of Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 36, now faces an economy teetering on the brink...
...further complication is that violations of international law are often subject to interpretation by the General Assembly, which is now dominated by newly independent Third World nations. To many of these countries, there is nothing wrong with intervention that can be labeled anticolonialist. Notes International Law Professor Rosalyn Higgins of the London School of Economics: "The preoccupation with self-determination and ending colonialism has led to stresses and strains on the old limits on the use of force. In the newer trend, lending aid to gain self-determination is accepted." For Marxist-Leninist governments, a double standard is even easier...
...sheep in our beautiful mountains." Karmal spoke mostly in English, which he said he learned in King Zahir's prisons during the 1950s, and proudly recited the opening lines of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, explaining that he ad mired Americans as people with "a great revolutionary and anticolonialist tradition." Karmal's chef de cabinet and one of his principal military aides were more comfortable speaking Russian...