Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority opinion, along with President Reagan, calls on our European allies to sever economic relations with Libya, which has been flimsily termed a "terrorist state" by disturbing numbers of centrists as well as the right. All this furor results from some recent acts of irrational slaughter that claimed fewer than 50 civilians--a trivial toll in comparison with, for example, the Lebanese citizens killed during the Israeli occupation of that country, or for that matter with last year's butchery by U.S.-funded Nicaraguan "contras" and the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa. In the recent airport attacks...
...REAGAN Administration has recently taken a few good steps in its professed campaign to fight terrorism by invoking strong economic sanctions against a principal actor in the terrorist scene--Libya and its leader, Moammar Khadafy. By contrast, our European allies appear to have learned nothing from such terrible events as the holiday airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. By their continued refusal to join the United States in concerted sanctions, European governments have doomed their own citizens and untold others to an increase in terrorist violence and a possible upsetting of the balance of power in the Arab world...
...EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS remain deaf to all this reasoning. They seem to prefer continued strong ties to the "hard-line" Arab states and favor leaving the role of "terrorism policeman" to the United States. But the time may come when Americans balk at this burden, and the time may also come when Europeans find themselves extremely vulnerable to more than just terrorism. Continued appeasement of men like Khadafy entails many risks, not the least of which is the strengthening of radical hands in the Arab balance of power...
...logo for the day. All of France, it seemed, was celebrating what one government official called "the largest investment in recent history in France." The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, called for the construction of a $1 billion, 5,000-acre European Disneyland some 20 miles east of downtown Paris. Said Eisner: "Walt Disney would certainly feel at home here, because European literature inspired so many of his fantasies and characters...
Lester Thurow in his new book, The Zero-Sum Solution, examines how the U.S. could improve its competitiveness in the world economy. He briefly discussed his book at the meeting, saying that Japan and many European countries enjoy a competitive advantage over the U.S. because of their higher savings rates. Thurow argued that more savings would help the U.S. in many ways, including a strengthening of the labor force. He asserted that the level of education and skills for Japanese or German workers is higher than it is for American employees. If corporations were not so deeply in debt, they...