Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind, despite Britain's threat to withdraw its economic aid -$10 million a year-if he carries out the expulsion. Amin declared that "Uganda will not stop functioning without British assistance." Perhaps not, but its economy could virtually come to a halt without the Asians. Amin warned his countrymen last week that there will be grave scarcities of goods and other hardships "while Uganda consolidates its position"-which may cancel out any political benefit he gains by expelling the Asian merchants...
Energetic and articulate, "young Michael" Manley has brought new confidence, style and warmth to the traditionally conservative island politics. Swept to a landslide victory over the Labor Party last February on a platform of "love power," he has used his office to persuade his countrymen to shed some of the unhappier legacies of British rule. "One of the greatest tragedies of the whole postcolonial period," he told TIME'S Bernard Diederich, "is the tendency to come out of a dependent situation with a psychology of dependence." To help make the point, Manley has broken with the British shirt...
Manley has set himself no less a task than that of freeing his countrymen from the colonial assumption that "somebody else is going to do it all for me." When workmen in Kingston recently balked at cleaning drainage ditches, Manley himself took up a shovel and began to dig. "All sorts of people who had refused to work later joined me," he recalled. "But if I had gone down in jacket and tie and made a great speech about the dignity of labor, they would have said: 'That's for the birds,' and they would have been...
Though many of Mobutu's 21.5 million countrymen may giggle at their new names, most of them respect the President's motive: to give them something of their own to be proud of. They felt degraded by Belgium's harsh colonialism under which they were called macaques (apes) and treated as backward children. Mobutu's "authenticity" campaign, going back as it does to their own precolonial tribal roots, at least gives them something to hold...
...legendary dinner parties in his Tokyo mansion, which was furnished with exquisite antiques gathered with remarkably eclectic taste. His much publicized "private army" was really a little cadre of idolaters who tried to discipline mind and body according to traditional samurai precepts. Mishima was a protean figure to his countrymen, and a major literary figure around the world. He was one of a very few Asian writers to be heavily influenced by Western philosophy. Why he chose to die so pathetically is a sad mystery...