Word: third world
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...Ginsberg, who recalls being thrown out of a third floor classroom and being called a "Jewboy," and who has lived with constant violence since he moved to the kibbutz adjacent to the war-torn Lebanese border, "the rest of the world can go fuck itself...
...THIRD WORLD. The latest upheaval, like others in the past, will cause the greatest suffering in the Third World. Aside from a handful of oil producers, such as Venezuela, Mexico, Nigeria and Libya, most of Africa and Latin America will be left with higher energy prices and softer markets for their exports. Double-digit inflation could turn into triple digits, recessions could become depressions, and foreign debt would go unpaid...
...just new incentives for making mischief against the U.S. but also new prestige in the eyes of others who have their own grievances, of which some may even be legitimate. When he plays Goliath, Uncle Sam elicits boos for himself and applause for the would-be Davids of the Third World...
...week long, however, China and the Soviet Union, either of which could have vetoed the measure, resisted a precipitate decision. Beijing considered abstaining, because it likes to portray itself as a champion of the Third World against the superpowers and of the Arabs against Israel. Yet China wanted to support the West in order to help repair its image, shattered by last year's anti-democracy massacre in Beijing. In the end, China voted with the majority...
Reagan Administration conservatives argued that any move against Doe might lead him to seize the American installations. And this was the heyday of Jeane Kirkpatrick's theory that traditional dictatorships of the Third World were more amenable to democratization than totalitarian regimes of the left. Washington endorsed Doe's election. "To withdraw support for Liberia's economic development," explained Chester Crocker, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "would sacrifice the tentative steps taken toward representative government...