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...countries' internal affairs by U.S. companies. ITT'S well-documented meddling in Chilean politics is a green and painful memory throughout the hemisphere. Even if Kissinger accepted all of the Latin arguments, however, he would still have to persuade a sometimes reluctant Congress to modify trade and tariff pacts...
...interest of Negroes to buy from them? The only way you can do it is by prohibiting the Negroes from dealing with white businessmen, and that's what people like Roy Innis--not McKissick as far as I know--propose. He proposes establishment of a "tariff" around the so-called Negro "community." To enforce it requires that you have a forcible rupture of intercourse...
...economic policy hastened Cuba's drive for independence. As European beet sugar production drove the price of Cuban sugar down, Americans stepped in where plantation owners were selling out cheaply. An increase in the U.S. sugar tariff in 1895 accelerated the rate of plantation workers' layoffs, heating up the Cubans' resentment of Spain to the point where revolution was inevitable...
WHEN LENIN wrote about imperialism in the early years of this century, he was describing a specific phase in history. In the last few decades of the 19th century, the European powers reversed their previous commitment to free trade and an enlightened colonial policy, erected tariff walls and began a new scramble for overseas territories. By the turn of the century, most of the Third World had been divided among the great powers and the growing rivalry, punctuated by periodic near-clashes over colonial interests, pointed to the outbreak of World...
...damned if he ever went there again"). They also feel bedeviled by Chief Justices - beginning with what Thomas Jefferson called the "twistifications" of John Marshall. Unappreciated by the people. Lonely. Unable to trust anybody. James Polk, a modest man who is regarded as a great President (he reduced the tariff and handled the annexation of California in 1848), spoke for all Presidents, and the source of Polk's pique was simple. "I am," he wrote in his diaries, "the hardest-working man in the country...