Word: colonialistic
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...Laotian government has never been able or energetic enough to defeat Souphanouvong in war. or to deal with him in peace. The princelings who took over in Vientiane, led most often by Prince Souvanna, were not dedicated nationalists or zealous patriots toughened in a struggle for freedom from their colonialist masters-France had simply handed Laos its independence with chaotic haste in the closing days of its Indo-China disaster. By Geneva's rosy terms, the Pathet Lao were supposed to be integrated into a Royal Laotian Army that was to be trained and equipped by the French...
...Lumumbist deputies have at most only 40-50 seats out of 137 in Joseph Kasavubu's government, Kanza claimed. Most of these have been "bought off:" they have betrayed Lumumba for "financial reasons" to Belgian mining interests and other "neo-colonialist forces...
Continuing his description of this "new process of neo-colonialist methods," Kanza suggested that Moise Tshombe's soldiers had murdered Lumumba as soon as the arrested leader entered Katanga province. "It is impossible that Tshombe would allow his mortal enemy to escape," he said...
Kanza maintained that the "last chance" of the U.S. in the Congo was to realign its policies along anti-colonialist "wave-lengths." He was cautious about evaluating the success of the U.N. in the Congo, saying only that Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold ought to ask himself, "Yes or No--did he follow the instructions of the Security Council...
...them with a cascade of chattering machine guns and banging rifles. When it was all over four hours later, no one much had been hurt, but Mobutu's invaders were in jail. So was their commander, who promptly changed sides and began issuing statements damning Mobutu as a "colonialist intriguer...