Word: manley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once denounced by antiwar students as "baby killers" and barred from campuses, are welcomed even at elite universities. ROTC programs that faltered during the Viet Nam era, when protesters were fire bombing their headquarters, are flourishing again. The military academies are enjoying a steady increase in applications. Says Colonel Manley Rogers, director of admissions for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: "If someone wishes to complete his basic training by Christmas '83, he should go and enlist immediately. In recent years, there has never been such a queue to join the Army...
...have had two years of consecutive economic growth after eight years of negative growth under Manley," Seaga said, adding, "We are reducing inflation and stimulating investment...
...press conference Seaga was quick to dissociate himself from other Third World leaders, including Manley, who are clamoring for reform of the IMF and its parent organization, the World Bank...
...VALUE of Manley's book lies less in its role as contemporary history than in its unspoken call for action. The narrative indicts a system of international inequity of which the U.S. is a major perpetrator. In the process, Manley provides a glimpse of how the U.S. appears to much of the world--meddling, insensitive, and arbitrary. Jamaica exposes a basic fault in U.S. foreign policy: blinded by its free enterprise ideology. America immediately panics when some smaller nation close to home opts for a different path. Instead of endearing itself to its neighbors and endearing itself to its neighbors...
...opposing Manley, the United States overlooked Jamaica's spotless human rights record and healthy democratic system and concentrated on maligning her economic policies. Manley puts it succinctly: "The fact that the recourse to destabilization tactics seemed necessary throws us back again in the nexus of imperialist relations, their intolerance of ideological and economic independence of any kind." His story is but another testimony to industrial nations' failure to address the worsening world economic crisis...