Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mendelsohn. Mendelsohn first became involved with the divestiture movement in 1972, when, as a divinity school student, he protested Gulf Oil's operations in Southern Africa. Mendelsohn will probably not say a word about Gulf today, choosing to ignore the fact that this American oil company pays the communist dictatorship of Angola $2 billion in hard currency annually in taxes and royalties. The Angolan regime is kept in power by 30,000 Soviet-armed Cuban troops. Luanda pays these Soviet proxies with the hard currency provided by Gulf. By its own admission, the Angolan regime would collapse without Gulf...
Those who want to use Harvard's stock portfolio to make a moral statement are very selective in their morality. Their criterion for divestiture is not that a company play a role in supporting dictatorship, but only that it operate in South Africa...
...With all my heart, I tell you that it is worse here now than it was in the times of the Somoza dictatorship...
...Sandinista revolution came of age together. Daniel, the eldest of five children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until the Sandinistas took...
...Lieut. General Henri Namphy, the council president and commander of the armed forces who succeeded Duvalier, announced that two more council members, Colonel Max Valles and Alix Cineas, and the government's military adviser, Colonel Prosper Avris, had stepped down. All three men were closely associated with the Duvalier dictatorship, and their appointment had stirred considerable bitterness...