Word: imperialistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Solzhenitsyn. Twenty-four hours after the announcement of the award in Oslo, the Soviet news agency Tass blasted the Nobel committee for "political speculation" with peace prizes and branded Sakharov an "anti-patriot" who "has taken a stand against his own country ... and joined with the most reactionary, imperialist circles which are actively opposing the policy of peaceful coexistence...
...those characteristics--the independence and the socialist egalitarianism--appealed to us. When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh, a Crimson editorial said, "The capture of Phnom Penh last week by the Khmer Rouge is a victory for the Cambodian people over the corrupt Lon Nol regime and the imperialist American policies that supported...
Savimbi is a slick and opportunistic politician who seeks to present himself as a moderate and a mediator, the logical compromise choice to become the first president of Angola. He rejects the anti-imperialist rhetoric of the MPLA and FNLA as irresponsible: "Complete independence is impossible. The population must not be misled on this point by propaganda. We must wait long years to attain economic independence." Savimbi favors "democratic socialism" and wants to "build a socialist society in Africa--not one molded on China, Senegal, or Congo, but one that fits in with the history and realities of our country...
...Many of those who don't think Moynihan's a racist and an imperialist feel he's a boring, uninteresting speaker," Fiduccia said, adding that many Stanford seniors are unhappy with the selection process used to find speakers for the June 15 commencement...
Cambodia's new leaders were apparently driven by a xenophobic determination to rid the country of foreign influence, not just the taint of "Americans and other imperialist lackeys" but also the influence of even the Chinese and North Vietnamese. Moscow, which had maintained diplomatic relations with the former Lon Nol government almost to the end, was rejected utterly: the second floor of the Soviet embassy was strafed with machine-gunfire, and the seven Russian diplomats there ordered to go to the French embassy compound to be evacuated with the other foreigners. From that precarious vantage point, they saw hundreds...