Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's performance was being watched with increasing anxiety by most European capitals (but not Bonn; said one West German official, "It is high time that America hit back"). The French were conspicuously cool. Last week President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made a point of not meeting with Andrei Amalrik, an exiled dissident who came to Paris with the express hope of seeing him. When Amalrik pulled up in a cab at the gates of the presidential mansion with a letter for Giscard, police hustled the visitor away...
...both food and (in distilled form) liquor. Corn, tapioca and yams also help ensure enough food for survival. But apart from the soil, not much of anything works today in Idi Amin's Uganda. Coffee and cotton were Uganda's chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices, 2 million bags of it are stockpiled in Kampala awaiting buyers. "They can still grow export crops," says a U.N. agronomist, "but uncertain delivery dates and past failure to live...
...sure, Amin has his defenders. A European associate describes him as "a man without fear who has the courage of his convictions," adding: "All he wants is for the world to give Uganda a square deal." A dozen black American journalists visited Uganda some months ago and concluded that Amin had been much maligned. But neither hired hands nor strangers are the best judges of Uganda today. Says Thomas Patrick Melady, Washington's last ambassador in Kampala: "I hold that Amin is thoroughly sane, totally shrewd and fully accountable for every action...
...made the mistake in the past of looking upon ourselves as Europeans, whereas in fact we were only of European extraction and were as much of Africa as anybody else. I have tried to make it known that we have every right to consider ourselves as whites with a permanent stake in Africa...
There was once, in the West, a tradition of demonic art. It no longer exists because-The Exorcist and other light satanic amusements notwithstanding-nobody much believes in devils any more. Perhaps the last significant European painter who did believe in them, and was able to project his anxieties onto them and make the demonic a chief theme of his work, died...