Word: capitalistically
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...despite the differences between Vietnam and the Mideast, one issue is the same: whether the people of the United States will permit their government to wage war to maintain a capitalist Western economic system that must use some 80 per cent of the world's wealth to sustain itself, at the cost of misery and political repression in the non-industrial world...
...sometimes the only insurance against personal financial disaster. Almost half of the entire 8,900 tons of gold held privately in Europe is in France. Today's French goldbug, says Paris Financial Editor René Sedillot, "is apt to be a peasant or a workingman, not a sophisticated capitalist. It's no use telling such hoarders that they ought to buy stocks. In their eyes, gold is a tried and true friend. It's part of the setting of their daily lives, like their slippers, their dogs and their dining-room tables. They wouldn't dream...
...necessary." Foreign companies seized by Allende have either been returned or their former owners have been compensated. And later, in his speech, the ambassador tells his audience that the junta will retain power "as long as it takes to reorganize the country from a socialist system to a capitalist system." Elections can take place only after the "free market system" is reinstated...
...silly to condemn Whitney's stealing, compared to the huge size of the kind of "legal" stealing that goes on all the time; silly to laugh at or pity Whitney's faith in his worthless distilleries when this is the kind of faith so many successful capitalist ventures have been built on. It's only that Whitney demonstrates the last stages of personal disintegration for the capitalist, and may warn us, on a larger scale, of the no-holds-barred rapaciousness combined with childlike faith in the impossible that may surface in American capitalism's coming death-rattle...
...efforts to provoke the Chilean military into a coup, and to cut off all international financial aid to Chile. ITT had also funded Allende's major opponent in the press, the newspaper E1 Mercurio, owned and operated by the Edwards family, which was popularly identified as Chile's most capitalistic of capitalist families. Allende was vindicated. He scored the United States and ITT. One had the feeling that they were one and the same for many Chileans in those heated days. It was Allende's smoking gun and he displayed it with a style that would have brought tears...