Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a great deal of evidence that Kissinger is not really interested in majority rule, or in ending violence. In fact, he openly stated his main concern before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last May, just before the first of his meetings with Vorster: "We have a stake....in not having the whole continent become radical and move in a direction that is incompatible with Western interests. That is the issue...
Kissinger showed no concern about violence in Southern Africa until it threatened white minority regimes and the U. S. investments that support them. In Zimbabwe, (the black nationalists' name for Rhodesia), Namimbia, and South Africa, violence against black people has been a daily event for decades and ignored by the U. S. It is still ignored today. Kissinger uses the word "violence" in reference mainly to anti-apartheid guerillas, not to the white regimes' internal security police. Black demonstrators have been shot down by South African police during Kissinger's meetings with Vorster, but there has been a "gentlemen...
...theory on why the pianist, considered to be among the two best pianists alive today (along with Arthur Rubinstein), has come to appease the masses is that he is still very concerned (absurdly so, considering his status) with his popularity. He is, perhaps, overly sensitive about it. A negative review in The Boston Globe many years ago prompted Horowitz to swear he'd never return to Symphony Hall. Although there are practically riots at the box office every time his recital tickets go on sale, he insists that his manager take out full-page ads in Musical America, the promotional...
Some countries, said the Secretary, may "see a chance for advantage in fueling the flames of war and racial hatred. But those countries are not motivated by concern for the peoples of Africa, or for peace. And if they succeed, they could doom opportunities that might never return...
ZAMBIA. Pop. 5,100,000. Independent (from Britain) since 1964. One-party government based on President Kenneth Kaunda's philosophy of "Humanism," which he defines as primary concern for "the dignity of the individual." Literacy: 20%. Per capita G.N.P.: $500. Economy is almost entirely dependent on copper for cash income and is currently in deep recession because of a drop in world prices...