Word: neocolonialists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indian government, however, ordered theAmerican money spent, objecting to such a large"neocolonialist" fund, Filstrup said. He said inabout seven years the fund will be exhausted andmember libraries will have to pay for the purchaseof Indian books, in addition to their delivery...
...said Linh, left in its wake "a million unemployed and a large contingent of prostitutes, drug addicts, vagabonds and hooligans." Ten years later, he claimed, "the reactionary and depraved neocolonialist culture, which has spoiled so much of our youth, remains our most acute and persistent danger...
...Lenten revelry. A delegate suggested that male candidates for the European Parliament in Strasbourg, whose nomination was the purpose of the meeting, should "undress and present themselves in the nude because the human body reveals political attitudes." Keynote Speaker Antje Vollmer railed against the "industrialized nature-destroying internationalism of neocolonialist nation states." Finally, the proceedings were disrupted by a gang of youths in punk hairdos, who stormed the platform and beat up a photographer...
...François Mitterrand's decision also provoked a test of wills on two fronts far from Central Africa. In Paris, Mitterrand's Communist partners and even some members of his Socialist Party criticized the extensive deployment of French troops into Africa as a throwback to the "neocolonialist" policies of Mitterrand's predecessors. Members of the center-right opposition complained that the President was doing too little, too late. U.S. officials, meanwhile, took umbrage when Mitterrand charged in a newspaper interview that the U.S. had sent its AW ACS surveillance aircraft to the region without properly consulting...