Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apartheid, or "separate development." But he was anxious to see whether a round of sustained negotiation could end the impasse over Rhodesia, whose white minority government broke away from British rule eleven years ago. And he was particularly hopeful that if all else failed, he could achieve some measured progress on Namibia, or South West Africa, the onetime League of Nations territory that South Africa has ruled since...
Soon Smith was on his way back to South Africa for a Saturday rugby match -and, as it turned out, the meeting he wanted with Henry Kissinger. Previously, the Secretary had said he would talk to Smith only if he were assured in advance of "major progress." In the end, he agreed to a Sunday morning meeting in order to sustain the momentum of his mission...
...Namibia, Kissinger had reason to hope for some genuine progress. South Africa is already committed to the principle of Namibian independence, and last month a constitutional conference in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for the transfer of power. The biggest snag is that the negotiators at Windhoek did not include any representatives of the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the liberation-and guerrilla -movement that is recognized by the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity as the sole representative of the Namibian people. Kissinger's first chore...
...Progress always exacts a price. As is often the case in areas of rapid economic development, prices in the South last year rose a trifle faster than the national average, though they are still at a lower level than in the North. The switch from agriculture to industry has also made the region more sensitive to the twists and turns of the national economy. The recent recession, which had a devastating impact on two of the region's main industries, textiles and construction, caused more suffering in the South than elsewhere. During 1975 total employment in the South fell...
...than three generations after the Civil War, the balance of trade in cultural influences went heavily against the South. The North was the exporter, the South the importer and consumer of ideas, styles, literature and fashions. Southerners compliantly pursued Yankee values, imitated Yankee models and tried to believe in Progress. They even ruthlessly suppressed Southern Populism, a movement that offered the only radical critique of corporate capitalism and dominant Northern values then viable in America. But Southerners were never converted into authentic Yankees; they proved to be dutiful consumers but poor imitators...