Word: rotberg
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Professor Rotberg was at great pains on Oct, 30 to show that the Center has been "interested in movements of anti-colonial and anti-imperial liberation . . . that make people in Washington uncomfortable." To substantiate this contention, Prof. Rotberg writes-inter alia-that he was "specifically invited to the Center nine long years ago in order to undertake a study of anti-British political movements in Africa...
This is precisely the point, and Professor Rotberg has- I fear-unwittingly lent powerful support to a grave charge that has often been directed against American interest in anti-colonial movements in Africa and elsewhere. Critics of American State Department "anti-colonialism" have argued that this policy was dictated primarily by the need to eject the old European colonial Powers from Africa and Asia. That having accomplished this task with the debacle and dissolution of the old Empires, the United States took fright at what it discerned as a "power vacuum" which it feared might be filled by indigenous revolutionary...
...RICHARD ROTBERG Skokie...
African Liberation Movements and U. S. Policy, led by Robert I. Rotberg. Research Fellow at the Center, and others. Using the liberation movements in Portuguese and Southern Africa as examples, this seminar will examine "ways in which the U. S. government and individuals help and hinder African liberation movements...
Asked why the commission on the sale of 100 shares valued at $80 a share was about two and a half times the fee on 100 shares of $17 stock, Bishop insisted that the former deal "involves significantly greater service for the customer." But when Rotberg inquired why the commission often varies on two orders involving identical amounts, Bishop ascribed the difference to more work by brokers when the number of shares traded is larger. Flourishing a chart of fees, Rotberg asked: "Why does the percentage of commission go down depending on the price of the security?" Replied Bishop...