Spectator's Journal
SPECTATOR' S JOURNAL The Talk of Tanzania "Harlem-Soweto: Same Struggle" runs the lead headline on the "Panorama of International Affairs'' page of the February 11 Tanzania Sunday News. Warren Day...
...Perhaps the most irritating remark made by a No-Mac-er is a self-righteous dismissal of those who favor the restaurant as "people who have an obvious financial interest in having McDonald's here...
...Among them are successful novelists, playwrights, actors, and singers, including John Updike, William Styron, Mia Farrow, Garson Kanin, James Taylor, Carly Simon, and Jules Feiffer...
...But with enormous trade deficits as monuments to America's laggardness in developing foreign markets, tributes to its entrepreneurial spirit probably aren't deserved...
...Le haute new class is not content merely to drive by and sneer at those who dine at McDonald's...
...But the No-Mac-ers objected less to the building itself than to the very idea of a McDonald's on the island...
...The Pope recently made Lord Grade a Commander of the Order of St...
...Other universities, such as the large California, state system and Harvard University, are still under siege by the students...
...In between Japan and Hong Kong, Korea can be reached with one more additional hour of flight time...
...No golden arches, no neon signs, very tasteful," the realtor said...
...In a recent article he reveals "studies" that have questioned the nutritional values of a McDonald's hamburger, and "studies" that have questioned the economic value of a McDonald's outlet to a community...
...There is no false antitrust modesty here: "If the container is marked with the . Official Seal of the 'Office of Monopoly, Republic of Korea,' you know for sure...
...One group, the Wilmington 10 has been convicted for allegedly firebombing a church during racial upheaval in Wilmington, North Carolina...
...The authors reveal that "South Africa spends more than $1 million per year to make Americans feel good about South Africa and the investment climate there," but they are optimistic because "workers recognize the need for international solidarity...
...also of Dar es Salaam: Amin must die such a cruel death that will forever remain in the annals of history...
...Mikuridi, Jr...
...It hurts even more when one discovers that "Darada" could have comfortably been the abbreviation for the association...
...In the February 25 installment he reports someone at a dinner party given by the Governor-General saying that Australians have always been accustomed to accepting a great deal of Government interference and control because, in the early days the harsh nature of the terrain-lack of .water etc-made the early settlers exceptionally de- . pendent on centrally organised assistance, to a much greater extent than was the case in, say, the original American colonies where conditions were so much less intimidating...
...Those who disparage Australian initiative perhaps fail to take into consideration newspaper entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch and the 25-year-old Adelaide man who on March 5 tried to get rid of a sore tooth by blowing it out of his mouth with a .22 rifle...
...UBLICATION The Joong-ang Daily News The Weekly Joong-ang The Monthly Joong-ang . The Childrens'Joong-ang The Ladies'Joong-ang The Students'J pong-ang The Quarterly Fine Arts The Literary Joong-ang Anglo-Australo-American Contrasts The London Sunday Telegraph has carried Peregrine Worsthorne's multi-part account of a journey he made to Australia earlier this year...
...Most reviewers dismissed Kristol's new class as a figment of his neo-conservative imagination, but one species of the new cl&ss has recently been sighted on Martha's Vineyard, where it is battling local representatives of the McDonald's Corporation to prevent the fast-food chain from opening an outlet there...
...Frankly, the word "Dada" when heard, irritates every Tanzanian and all-peace4 loving people at large as it reminds them of the invasion of Idi Amin Dada of Tanzania and the atrocities the Ugandan are subjected to by his regime...
...The consensus of the community/' a No-Mac-er intones, "is to reject many of the 20th-century values which have homogenized the American culture...
...No doubt it would be unfortunate if McDonald's erected a building that clashed with the Vineyard's architectural landscape But no such building is contemplated...
...Because, as one No-Mac-er puts it, "we should put up a little fight before uglification takes over...
...And why do they object to having a McDonald's on the island...
...Coverage of Idi Amin Dada's career has probably been more extensive in the Tanzdnia News than in any other publica tion in the world, with its news, opinion, and letters columns sharing a common view on this subject-as on all others...
...Stephen Miller...
...The article does not further mention either Chicago or Harlem but outlines how "the liberation support movement challenges American financing of apartheid^' and cites successes such as those of student protesters: Several major universities have used their power as share-holders to protest corporate investment in South Africa and others have even withdrawn investment from such corporations: Universities of Michigan, Illinois, and Massa-Chusetts [sic], Columbia University, Michigan State University, etc...
...The South Korean National Tourism Corporation makes the tactful claim in its advertisement that "there is...
...He was hospitalized for burned lips and facial bleeding...
...Warren Day and Carol Thompson, lecturers at the University of Dar es Salaam, write: '' 'You can't understand Chicago if you don't understand South Africa.' This theme, exposing the links between the conditions and problems of American workers and those of South Africa, is a major strategy for the liberation support movement in the United States...
...On either coming or going, ode can visit Korea as a transit passenAnother ad reports that Korean Red Ginseng is now available in the United States...
...E.N.B...
...Britain itself might be the leading exporter of entrepreneurs today, with thousands of young managers going abroad, and especially to the United States, to open offices on behalf of British publishing, banking, and commercial concerns...
...they simply do not want one around...
...It hurts to hear that "Dada" is in Dar es Salaam representing a. regional association...
...enjoys one million daily circulation and over 10 million listeners around the nation...
...Possibly the world's most notable entrepreneurs are two Britons of older generations -Sir Freddy Laker in air travel and Lord Lew Grade in film and television production...
...But "how can you tell they're real...
...According to a realtor in favor of the sale, the plan was to take over a current building-a health-food store- and renovate it slightly...
...The entire text runs: With its ever.-flourishing business of the TBC-TV, Radio (AM & FM) and a half dozen magazines, The Joorig-ang Daily News & Tong-Yang Broad-casting Corp...
...It would have looked beautiful, just like a captain's house...
...The No-Mac-ers, as they call themselves, might best be categorized as "le haute new class" because of their chief identifying mark: affluence...
...The No-Nfac-ers have won at least a visiting Washington Post journalist to their side...
...I appeal to the Ugandans to heed the words of Fidel Castro who said, "There is no liberation by parcel post except from the barrel of a gun...
...It can afford to hole up a few months a year in Martha's Vineyard and be contemptuous of those who do not write novels, compose rock songs, act in movies, or take photos for magazines-those, that is, who make money by catering to the appetites and preferences of common people...
...More and more Americans are seeking to link their own struggle against the exploitation of monopoly capitalism with that same struggle in South Africa...
...The whole world is watching...
...As one No-Mac-er said: "Big Macs and the sort of people who would eat them are as welcome as the BUBONIC PLAGUE...
...It's only 13 years old but going on strong...
...Trouble in Paradise In his book, Two Cheers for Capitalism, Irving Kristol said that there existed in this country an elitist and anti-business "new class'.' that dislikes a civilization shaped by market transactions because such a civilization is responsive to the "appetites, preferences, and aspirations of common people...
...But the ad with perhaps the most please ing simplicity and directness is the one headed, ' 'The Most Influential Mass Media in Korea...
...Why is Korea doing so.well...
...The decision of several Korean advertisers to economize on copywriters added some unexpected charm to an otherwise fluently dull "International Economic Survey" in the February 4 New York Times...
...So other islanders, who might feel " they deserve a break" one day, are deprived of their low-priced family restaurant...
...The Ten were given a combined jail sentence of 282 years...
...Writes Mr...
...But How Can I Subscribe...
...every likelihood that Korea will be frequented and favorfed by more than two inillion foreigners annually by 1982-proof in reality in not too distant a future...
...Thus the entrepreneurial spirit never caught on here in quite the same way as it did in the United States...
...Sylvester for his production of Franco Zeffirelli's epic "Jesus of Nazareth...
...Day and Thompson also describe the human-rights situation in the United States: "As Ambassador Young admitted to the press, there are many political prisoners in the U.S...
...According to the Governor-General, the characteristic Australian reaction to a problem is "What are they going to do about it,'' whereas in the United States it is "What are we going to do about it...
...Le haute new class makes its money elsewhere, makes its money doing more edifying things than selling real estate...
...Writes a correspondent identified simply as "Anti-Dada" from Dar es Salaam, Tan zania's capital: I am Very much shocked to learn that the Dar es Salaam Amateur Darts Association officials have opted for "Dada" as an abbreviation for their honourable association...
Vol. 12 • April 1979 • No. 4
