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...replaced by neocolonialization. Although the countries remained independent by name, the economies of all the countries is still controlled and regulated by the colonialist masters. Our political parties have no well-defined programs. Most of our leaders have become thoughtless and unwholesome. Our politicians are more of salesmen than statesmen. Much wealth accumulates in the hands of a few while a majority of the people decay with misery and poverty. The intellectual elite that was vocal, vital and critical of corrupt governments has chosen to either join the corruption, flee the country or suffer in silence. The army which should...
...anything since the days when people drank their whisky out of teacups. What to do? Last week the party did what many another stumbling enterprise has done: changed its name. The N.P.P. will henceforth-at least on an experimental basis in some states-be known as the National Statesmen Party. Whether the name change will hoist the party out of the category of political oddity is doubtful, but at least it may attract a few of the folks who take a drop now and then...
...Panama Canal treaty is no historical accident, no caprice of idle statesmen. It has been twelve long, arduous, ruminative years in the making; it is an idea whose time has come-and whose time may be running out, given the objection to the treaty among many Latin Americans, especially in Panama. Strongman or not, Torrijos is faced with opposition, chiefly radicals who are considerably farther to the left than he is. If the treaty is not ratified, if trouble breaks out in Panama, it will be all the harder to draw up a subsequent pact in an atmosphere of mutual...
Characteristically, Carter tackled several controversial problems simultaneously when he flew up to New York City early in the week to address the U.N. and confer with a raft of world statesmen. His 35-minute U.N. speech was restrained and unexceptional, although he did announce-without explaining further -that Washington and Moscow "are within sight of a significant agreement" in the SALT talks. The U.S., he said, was "willing to go as far as possible" to limit or cut its nuclear weapons. "On a reciprocal basis," he went on, the U.S. could immediately "reduce them by 10% or 20%, even...
With some foreign statesmen, Makarios could be cold and obstinate. With his own people, however, he was warm and effusive. Although he suffered a mild heart attack earlier this year, Cypriots were unprepared for his death. The vigorous archbishop had never really designated a successor. The mourning, as a result, was electric as Greeks filed past the bier, where he lay in splendid gold crown and mantle. The Greek Cypriot government declared a 40-day mourning period...