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...Africa must be opposed unconditionally on all issues. But the U.S. cannot support the present government unless its policies change. This indeed is a matter of American self-interest. As a member of South Africa's Institute on Race Relations puts it, "If America can demonstrate that liberal, capitalist democracy has an answer to racial discrimination, and an answer sufficiently powerful to move white South Africa, then the scenario for Africa's whole future could be different...
...faced a tough challenge at her very first stop-the beautiful but economically blighted island of Jamaica. Prime Minister Michael Manley, a fiery socialist, has hinted at a capitalist U.S. plot to overthrow him. But Manley was the soul of propriety when he greeted Rosalynn at the airport and said that her husband's emphasis on human rights offered "great encouragement...
...embark next week on a four-month tour. He is also starring in a movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, based on the Beatles' album. "I've earned every penny of the money," he maintains. "I guess I'm just a capitalist at heart...
...government has permitted similar gieldy samochodowe (automobile exchanges) in Gdansk, Wroclaw and Lodz. For some Sunday salesmen, business could not be better. At the Warsaw mart, one enterprising Pole had already sold five cars for profits ranging from $150 to $1,000. He needs the money. In the best capitalist tradition, he is working his way through college...
...lone area where Galbraith feels sure he is on sound ideological ground is when he asserts the universality of bourgeois, materialist values, resulting in the convergence of capitalist, communist, and developing nations towards one social and economic model. From the Coca-Cola bottling plant in the Soviet Union to socialized health care in Britain, in the growth of the massive production plant in capitalist and socialist nations, and in the uniformity of architectural styles in Moscow and New York, Galbraith finds convergence of culture. He takes heart in the development, presumably because of its implications for peaceful co-existence between...