Word: neocolonialists
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...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...
...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...