Word: neocolonialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invaders were fighting under new bosses-leftist Portuguese mercenaries-and were armed with Soviet-made mortars and missiles. Meanwhile, the pro-Moscow National Liberation Front of the Congo, a Paris-based exile group, took responsibility for the invasion. Its aim, F.N.L.C. spokesmen said, was to overthrow Mobutu's "neocolonialist tyranny...
...from deepening confrontation to negotiation, the Russians were firing rhetorical broadsides from the sidelines, as if the trauma of another siege of shuttle diplomacy were almost more than they could bear. They accused the U.S. of "gimmickry" and of seeking to preserve "not only racial oppression, but the entire neocolonialist setup in Africa...
...determined to drive out the foreign investor. LDC rhetoric, for example, has made the multinational a pariah, branding it as the handmaiden of neocolonialist exploitation. Many corporation executives believe that laws could be enacted making the multinational responsive to local government without necessarily creating an environment hostile to foreign capital...
...Jamaican eyes, Manley's power play is only an attempt to redress a neocolonialist relationship. Between 1949 and the mid-1960s, five American corporations and one Canadian firm bought 225,000 acres of bauxite-rich land, or 13% of the island's total land area, mostly from private owners. Ore exports from the mines reached 7.4 million tons in 1973, and taxes and royalties on the shipments that year brought in $25 million, roughly 40% of Jamaica's foreign currency. But under the complicated tax system, the Jamaican take on each ton shipped dropped from...
...important, it was because of the propaganda emphasis placed on it by the Nixon administration. As North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong said in Hanoi September 2, in periods of escalation as well as deescalation, his government never lost sight of the United States's intention to impose its neocolonialist wishes on South Vietnam and to keep it from reuniting with the North...