Word: westerners
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...international scene that it's time for the U.S. to reduce its commitment to NATO. More than echoes of the traditional cries for greater "burden sharing" among our allies, an increasing array of academics are calling for a long-term "devolution" and pullout from our commitment to defend Western Europe and Japan, while arguing that a failure to do so will lead to long-term American decline...
...States's share of the world manufacturing output has fallen from over 40 percent after World War II to around 16 percent today. But the reduction of America's overwhelming predominance in the world economy was a result that America deliberately sought, on the grounds that an economically secure Western Europe and Japan were crucial to containing communism and providing for a stable post-war world, thereby enhancing America's international position in the long run. To cite the economic rehabilitation of Western Europe and Japan through the Marshall Plan and demilitarization as causes of the United States's decline...
Eddie Cameron was 23 when he was arrested, charged with burglary and placed in a solitary cell in Geraldton, Western Australia, one night last July. A few hours later he was found dead, hanging by his own bootlaces. But the death of Eddie Cameron, an Aborigine who was a local football hero and the son of a political activist, sparked a riot by 300 of Australia's native sons...
...deaths are often hauntingly similar. Eddie Murray, 21, hanged himself in 1981 while in custody in the New South Wales hamlet of Wee Waa. Loyed Boney, 28, was found hanged in his cell at Brewarrina, New South Wales, in 1987. Bernard McGrath used a strip of toweling in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, to strangle himself. McGrath's relatively minor offense: violating probation after conviction for driving without a license. A few cases involve charges of police brutality, while others focus on the failure of police to realize that a prisoner was seriously...
...attacked close to the source. There should be an international ban on the export of environmentally dangerous waste, especially to countries without the proven technology to dispose of it safely. In the past two years, some 3 million tons of hazardous waste have been transported from the U.S. and Western Europe on ships like the Pelicano to countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. Observed Saad M. Baba, third secretary in the Nigerian mission to the U.N.: "International dumping is the equivalent of declaring war on the people of a country." And if such wastes continue to proliferate, man will have...