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...leaders of the poor include such articulate spokesmen as Algeria's Houari Boumedienne, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Jamaica's Michael Manley and Mexico's Luis Echeverria, who recite a familiar litany of sins that they believe are being committed by the First World against them: imperialism, unjust exploitation of resources, arrogance, waste and neocolonialism. Last month Nyerere told a meeting of the Commonwealth Society in London: "I am saying that it is not right that the vast majority of the world's people should be forced into the position of beggars, without dignity. We demand...
...spokesmen for developing nations frequently point to Egypt; industries founded there in the early 19th century, when the country was autonomous although under loose Turkish sovereignty, were dismantled by the British after they occupied the country in 1882. Still, there is ample evidence that colonialism actually improved most societies. In 1962, for example, Algeria acquired railways, roads, ports, airfields, hospitals, schools, water supplies and power stations from the departing French-not to mention a thriving network of profitable farms that have since been all but ruined by heavyhanded socialist administration...
...should the Third World redress these grievances, real and imagined? There are many solutions, offered with varying degrees of reason and logic by spokesmen for poor nations, but they all come down to one. As Economist Samuel Parmar sums it up: "The developed nations must accept a new lifestyle." At the U.N., the Group of 77 has proposed that the First World double or triple its financial-aid contributions. Such capital transfers, moreover, should no longer be voluntary, but mandated-perhaps by a tax on commodities. Under this proposed "new order," national currencies, such as the U.S. dollar and German...
...Spokesmen for developing countries privately concede that they do not expect all of the proposed "new order" to be accepted. Even so, the poor states' demands-if only because of the new strength of their voices-constitute an agenda for action that the rich must confront. After long dismissing LDC demands as unrealistically shrill, Washington is now ready to talk about a number of them. "We have heard your voices. We will join your efforts," Secretary of State Kissinger told the U.N. last September in a speech read for him by Moynihan. In it, the U.S. offered more than...
Several Harvard students plan to follow the sun southward this Christmas for a tropical vacation, spokesmen for three Cambridge travel agencies said yesterday...