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...Kippur War of 1973, which represented unmistakable threats to the existence of Israel. Arab leaders frequently make a distinction between Judaism, which they claim to respect as a biblical religion that is a spiritual precursor of Islam, and Zionism, which they see as an outdated colonialist and imperialist ideology imported from Europe. The Jewish answer is that today this is a distinction without a difference: attacking Zionism means threatening the very existence of Israel...
...Memoirs of a Survivor is not an ordinary novel. Doris Lessing's work has generally focused on one woman's struggle so find and identity in the modern world Politically (she grew up in-Rhodesin and has spent a great deal of energy examining her colonialist background), and as a women, she seems more mature. so that Memoirs both resolves and transcends these earlier themes. This newest novel is a fantasy, the story of an unnamed woman in an unspecified future; the plot is often bizarre and confusing. Because it is so vague, the action serves as a vehicle...
...possible intervention was just a very small part of a lengthy interview, it was picked up and headlined by newspapers and wire services around the world. Standing alone, the statement almost seemed as if Kissinger were already mobilizing troops. The reaction was immediate, emotional and sharply negative. "A colonialist enterprise doomed to failure," thundered Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, reacting to his own reading of the Kissinger statement. "Gunboat policies," ridiculed Pravda. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat warned that the oil-producing Arab nations would blow up their wells rather than let them be seized by U.S. forces. Rome worried...
Others obviously unhappy were the big business concerns that came to be identified over the years with Portugal's colonialist policies. The Diamang Diamond Co. in Angola, for example, operated for decades like an empire within an empire with its own dreaded police force, which was said to have coerced blacks into forced labor. The tactics have changed since then, but when a high-ranking Portuguese minister was asked if such companies would be allowed to continue operating in the territories, he replied, "I think...
...group of soldiers armed with clubs to the central prison. There he watched as 45 convicted thieves were beaten and left, brutally wounded, to roast for six hours under the tropical sun. When U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim protested the atrocity, Bokassa called him "a pimp" and "a colonialist" for daring to intervene...