Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For Afghanistan, where settling old political scores through the barrel of a gun is practically a tradition, the coup was relatively tidy. The rebels struck just after the Daoud regime had sealed the country's borders to tighten security before a meeting of foreign ministers of 25 non-aligned...
We should think of our allies, the guerrilas fighting in Zimbabwe, as they pit their courage against the over-whelming superior armed might of the illegal Ian Smith regime. And the people of now-independent Mozambique, amid their own struggle against poverty and exploitation, who closed their border to Rhodesian...
There are at least two memorable performances in the film--but they come from characters on the periphery. One is Francis Faye's Madam Nell, the whorehouse madam. She delivers a series of deadpan wise-cracks with the dry timing of a George Burns, and this cool sexual sarcasm produces...
After Green wrote the full treatment for the show, he feared that NBC would reject his frank depiction of life and death in the camps, but the network immediately gave its O.K. "It was the week Roots went on," says Green. "I think the decision to go ahead might have...
(3 of 13) Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, the cooperative societies envisioned by Prime Ministers Michael Manley of Jamaica and Forbes Burnham of Guyana. Despite their great differences, these socialisms have several things in common. First, all these societies call themselves socialists, although their beliefs may be rooted less in...