Word: western
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...chaos of American foreign and military policy. The present system rests on the assumption that more military spending means a safer nation, and it fails to subordinate military spending to the government's foreign policy goals. The system does not budget money lot specific policy purposes, such as defending Western Europe against Soviet aggression instead the Department of Defense requests and Congress votes funds for accounting categories "military construction" and This same schism between purpose and spending exists in the Congressional committee structure the Armed Services Committee determines the military budget, the House International Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign...
Recent experience has furnished no exception to this policy. In the wake of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Carter has reaffirmed his commitment to nuclear energy. With over 55 per cent of domestic uranium reserves and over one-third of all western low-sulphur coal located on Indian reservations, the native peoples will bear the brunt of Carter's energy policy. The land is leased, underground and strip mining commences, and people are relocated. The "Indian wars" are not over. In one year, according to Peter MacDonald, tribal chairman of the Navajo reservation, "The Navajo Nation exports enough energy...
...nuclear fuel cycle is in rebellion. The Navajo lawsuit and the events of last weekend are just a start, expressing growing native resistance to corporate and government exploitation. The government and the companies entice the colonized people with money and jobs, but the people, caretakers of the Western Hemisphere, demand much more. The people demand a future free of radiation, abandoned mines and mills, a future free of the threat of genocide to their children...
...Western goals in southern Africa: Western powers, if they had their own choice, would like to create a neocolonial state [in Rhodesia]. So they stand behind South Africa, so South Africa can prop up Ian Smith. [The West's] entire strategy is to create a buffer out of Zimbabwe and Namibia [to protect South Africa...
...colony. They earn a further $2 billion in remittances from Hong Kong residents to their relatives on the mainland and from some 50 Hong Kong-based companies that the Chinese control in shipping, banking, retailing and other fields. Trusted Chinese are assigned to work in these ventures to learn Western management methods. Now the Chinese are trying to draw both investment money and expertise directly into China. This could transform the Hong Kong economy in the next few decades. Hong Kong has embarked on a long, perhaps inexorable process of economic integration with China...