Word: europeanization
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Like all other European settlers in Africa in years past, the Rhodesian whites, by reason of their numbers alone, had always been vulnerable. Of the estimated 313 million people who live in Africa south of the Sahara, 61 million are in southern Africa (including Angola, Zambia and Mozambique). Of these 61 million, only about 5 million are white ? and of these, 4.3 million live in South Africa. Before the independence of Angola and Mozambique changed the power balance in southern Africa, it was just conceivable that 274,000 Rhodesian whites could maintain their position indefinitely over the country...
...foreign policy. Both promised to lower unemployment (current jobless rate: 3.9%), raise pensions, maintain but not significantly expand other social services, crack down on terrorists, pursue detente with East Germany on more of a quid pro quo basis, continue close ties with the U.S., and lobby in other West European capitals for a stronger NATO. Their only substantive difference was over the issue of corporate-tax cuts, which Kohl favored and Schmidt dismissed as "unrealistic and impossible...
Johnson's history is much more than a collection of vignettes. He stresses the integral role that Christianity played not merely in European society but specifically in its economy. From the 9th to the 14th centuries, it was the monks of the great monasteries, particularly the Cistercian houses, who drained the swamps of Europe and cleared its for ests, thus creating thousands of square miles of arable land - and laying the foundations of Europe's prosperity. Christianity left some less fortunate legacies too. The ferocity of the Crusades, observes Johnson, "fossilized Islam into a fanatic posture" from which...
...Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, said yesterday he is "very glad that the Schmidt government is retaining power. No matter what misgivings others have, the effort by Mr. Kohl's party to have a tougher anti-Communist line in mid-Europe could only have increased tensions among the European countries...
Many people dream of escaping the world and fleeing to some unspoiled tropical isle. Most of them settle for a couple of weeks in the Hamptons or a package tour to Puerto Rico. Not Gunnar Thorkild, the half-Polynesian, half-European hero of Morris West's latest novel. The grandson of a great Polynesian navigator as well as an instructor at the University of Hawaii, Thorkild publishes a paper claiming that even in this day of earth satellites and up-to-date hydrographic charts, there exists in the vastness of the Pacific an island known only to Polynesia...