Word: imperialist
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Roche is no better as the imperialist. He once bombed power plants as a member of the resistance in South Africa and now works for a British firm that originated from a slaveholding interest. Roche's big job is to subsidize Jimmy Ahmed's revolutionary "commune," in the corporate effort to head off more violent threats of revolution. He is confused about his role, as he lives with the rich whites, works for them, but also works indirectly to hasten their downfall...
...became "very confused" while writing, "swamped by all the people I had to write about, and all the little events which I thought important." He was unable to deal with the larger issues. In the Caribbean crisis, Roche has responded in the same way, dismissing simple conceptions of the imperialist and the poor black victim as "cartoon strips." The largest generalization he is willing to make is that when a professional black man's belly begins to bulge out over his waistband, he has been lost to the ruling class. In place of the cartoon strips of large identifiable oppressors...
...argued that Soviet support to the MPLA and Chinese support on the other side are not issues in the consideration of the Angolan War. "I'm not worried about the Soviets or China or Cuba," he said in a direct, realpolitik response to the Maoists. "South Africa and its imperialist backers are a greater threat to me. It is true that China is the purest revolutionary regime in the world. But I would quarrel with those who say that the revolutionary purity of China, say, is the same as her foreign policy. We all know that's not true...
Stark Reality. At the welcoming banquet in the Great Hall of the People, the atmosphere turned briefly ominous. Teng in his toast sternly warned the Americans against being roundheeled with the Soviets on detente, which the Chinese regard as naive and a self-defeating attempt to appease imperialist Moscow. Mystifying the Americans, Teng summed up Peking's world outlook with a Maoist aphorism: "Our basic view is, there is great disorder under heaven, and the situation is excellent." Less inscrutably, he added: "Rhetoric about detente cannot cover up the stark reality of the growing danger of war." Ford...
...subject of the Panama Canal unites South Americans. The Zone is seen as an odious relic of the imperialist age. All the governments support the Panamanians' demand for a new treaty granting them unmistakable sovereignty over the Zone, with details of canal operations and U.S. military presence to be negotiated. General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's strongman, is willing to wait until after the U.S. election for the new treaty (he has heard of the "Teddy Roosevelt lobby"). But something must give in 1977. He speaks of restraining "the students" (at the University of Panama) as another general...