Word: third world
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...stiffest resistance could come from U.S. labor leaders and Democrats in Congress who fear that the trade pact would tempt companies to shift factories and jobs to low-wage Mexico. Declared Senator Donald Riegle, a Michigan Democrat: "To integrate our economy with a Third World economy will create massive unemployment here." Congressional critics seem certain to demand safeguards for U.S. jobs and the environment when the trade deal comes to a vote next year...
That rejoinder was not only frivolous but shallow. After the early '60s, one reason why the U.N. was unable to intervene in African and Asian bloodbaths was the sanctity-of-boundaries standard that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent...
...cases for intervention must tread. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali lashed out two weeks ago at British critics for faulting his lack of deference to the Security Council's big powers. The West's sympathies for Yugoslavia, he suggested, had claimed priority over equally desperate crises in the Third World. Newspapers in London may have rebuked him, he cracked, "because...
...General suggested, in an interview published in the New York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly nodded their assent, reflecting the deep North-South rift within...
Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council have been on a collision course since he took office last January. Though thoroughly cosmopolitan and a graduate of universities in Cairo and Paris, the Egyptian, the first Arab and first African Secretary-General, sees himself as a champion of the Third World. He is demanding that the political chaos and famine in Somalia be given as much attention as the carnage in Yugoslavia, which he would put largely in the hands of the European Community. Some council members grumble that he is arrogant and inattentive and that he too often goes over their...