Word: europeanization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...France's telephone network in return for helping a CGE subsidiary, Alcatel, market telephone equipment in the U.S. The French government, however, failed to approve that agreement, and could block the ITT deal. But if France consents to the sale, CGE will become a sort of pan-European counterweight to AT&T. Says one journalist from the French newspaper Le Figaro: "This could be our telephonic Airbus...
...week's discussions centered in the Hague, where leaders of the twelve members of the European Community met to ponder the subject. In the end, they settled for weaker recommendations than many observers had expected. They called on South Africa to release Black Leader Nelson Mandela, who has been in prison for 24 years, and to lift its ban on the African National Congress, the country's oldest black political organization, which today conducts a limited and largely ineffectual guerrilla campaign against the Pretoria regime from nearby Zambia...
...strong crew," Clay said, but he added that the "European competition is tough...
There are some obvious strategic advantages to maintaining a cordial relationship with South Africa, but if that country continues to act like an Eastern European nation, then the U.S. should treat it as one. Not only should this country forward the sanctions approved by the House, but diplomatic relations should be reduced to a minimum and the American government should work actively to build a consensus against South Africa as it did, with some success, against Libya and has consistently attempted to effect against the Soviet Union...
Just as the Eastern European Block regimes attract little steady attention from the American population, South Africa is relying on a closed-door policy just short of an iron curtain. If, as Pik Botha stated, the primary purpose of white South Africans is to survive, then perhaps a sacrifice of some of their public ties to Western nations would not be too high a price...