The triumph of Coca-Cola:
Getlein, Frank
imports from underdeveloped countries, and the creation of a Nicaragua's internal affairs. Later Perez sent a flight of Air fund financed by OPEC and the developed nations to stabilize ...
...As is now customary, following the mainland China: Whereas under Mao the The answer to why it took 30 years for massive precedent of Indochina and the overriding goal of the state was the cap- American recognition of one of the current one of Iran, the reams of com- ture of Taiwan and the destruction of overwhelming facts in 20th-century hismentary on the new development, both America's "China," that of the refugee tory, namely the liberation and unificaofficial and journalistic, have mostly fo- warlord, Chiang Kai-shek, under its pre- tion of mainland China from foreign occused on the frivolous aspects of the sent leadership...
...Of several minds: Frank Getlein China, the whole China and nothing but China...
...Evangelization remains the experts was that they had correctly in their recent meeting to communicate just a word in such a context...
...Spain...
...and draws an ever sharper line between our recogemergency meeting of the Organization of American States...
...The font and origin economic damage on the United States FRANK GETLEIN of all Communist efforts was in the Kremlin and all Communist leaders everywhere worked solely for the inter- Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy ests of the Soviet Union...
...has failed to strike a Venezuela for her moderation in foreign policy and for her responsive chord among OPEC member nations...
...It is a highly deceptive answer to the question and one which, if it is widely TRIUMPH OF COCA-COLA accepted, as seems inevitable, will serve us as badly as the related beliefs that the WHO FOUND CHINA & WHY IT TOOK SO LONG United States was "betrayed" in Indochina by the rascally Indochinese who refused to honor the "decent interval" A F•TER ONLY thirty years, the United government bothered asking the funda- concept that existed chiefly in the RepubStates has at last moved to recog- mental, obvious and probably most prof- lican campaign oratory of Henry Kisnize the government of mainland itable question, which is, How come it singer and that the Shah's troubles are China...
...The Council sketched out a Commonweal: 8...
...terms of the evolving political nature of greater freedom...
...No States to recognize China, as was never attitudes probably did reflect general one in government and very few outside possible if China wanted to insist it was popular feeling, at least at one time...
...the future of the world belonged to the Minh in Hanoi at about the same time, Among the other results of the anti- two of them to divvy up in the manner but the root answer is to be found in the Communist fever that we find ourselves more than once suggested by Henry Kishysterical, semi-paranoid American still burdened with are the CIA's Murder...
...Simultaneously and both before and after and out ultimately to unite the entire for that matter, in the 16th and 17th centhe great galoshes gallivanter, his brother world against the United States...
...At home, Copei criticized the Perez government for oveithe following OPEC meeting in Venezuela in December 1977, committing Venezuela in Nicaragua...
...than to live their own growth and strucIn the perceptions of the Dulles It must mean something that the worst ture with no special reference to the brothers, Communism was a single man- enemies of the Soviet Union are Com- wishes of the big powers...
...of eminently capitalist states of West Gercidentally, the expressed desire of the course, also contributed to the rise of many and Japan...
...Chamarro...
...phone call to Zbigniew Brzezinski to the rationalization of agriculture and other accomplished by the Chinese Comindustrial needs of China which United goals more affective of daily life than munist movement under the leadership of States industry -starting, apparently...
...strictly of his own making, with no colminds at State may propose recognition When the shadows of the question laboration from the United States, parof Niagara Falls, the Rockies and similar have threatened to intrude into the gen- ticularly the CIA, in pressing down the phenomena which, like China, somehow eral glow of self-congratulation, the an- whole society so firmly that it was bound manage to survive whether we recognize swers have almost always been framed in to spring back up toward, if not to, them or not...
...At the very least it victorious Mao to take American tutor- Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy and means that both self-styled superpowers ship in nation-building, an expressed de- assorted lesser charlatans, crooks and are superpowerfully wrong in supposing sire exactly parallel to that of Ho Chi clowns of the anti-Communist circus...
...nized allies and our enemies in the Third World...
...The efficiency of the church as ticipated after Vatican II is a fading experts turned out to be right, this was "Sign" is endangered not by any en- dream...
...monolith tightly controlled by Moscow centuries and unifying monarchy was...
...the Perez administration attempted to rally interna- That the United States failed to display greater enthusiasm for tional opinion against Somoza...
...adventures in irredentism...
...least as grieviously...
...The China "loss...
...If we can grasp ifestation of revolt against the divine munist states, China and Yugoslavia, that, we will be on the road to sanity in order of the world and had to be put down and that the nations inflicting the worst international relations...
...but the United States to take a "more decisive stand" against such a reaction would indeed be short-sighted...
...upon request...
...That there was no each other and thus be enabled to radiate of every single China expert...
...Later Perez sent a flight of Air fund financed by OPEC and the developed nations to stabilize Force planes to Costa Rica...
...If turies...
...19 January 1979: 7 There are the specifics of the way taken as proof that it was they who had have been and continue to be the prethings actually happened, including, in- "lost" China...
...the world in his floppy galoshes to create penditure on items that by definition Communism has been primarily an inwhat has turned out to a highly illusio- bring no return...
...Who knows...
...Hence, when Mao brought his struggle to a successful conclusion, had the vast country together and under Chinese WITHIN THE STRUCTURE command for the first time in decades, FROM 'ORGANIZED HATRED' TO DIALOGUE the question for American policy-makers was not how to relate to a newly reconsti- AS I have suggested in previous col- croaching democratic initiatives on the tuted China, but rather, Who lost China...
...and likened the results of his Perez initiatives discourages those who would follow in his ruthless repression to Guernica...
...has demolished republican democracy was an instrument whom had to be brought into existence the Dullesian-Nixonian myth of the of nationalism in the 19th and early 20th for the purpose of signing the treaty...
...and in fact called on replacement by the less outspoken Luis Herrera Campins...
...any Soviet hopes of universal sub- idea that most of the new states and inand in favor of absolutist military dic- version and conquest have suffered at deed most of the old desire nothing more tators...
...froze oil prices...
...singer with his Metternichian obsesanti-Communism whipped up by a suc- Inc., unless it has indeed been dis- sions...
...wherever it appeared...
...umns, many of the difficulties in part of the "misguided" but by the That question contributed mightily to today's church result not so much rigidities of bureaucracy-by the simple domestic division and political bitterness from ill will as from the fact that there are fact that there is no way for the people of in this country, as well as, almost inci- so few avenues, channels and processes the church to come to know and respect dentally, clearing the State Department for communication...
...defense of human rights has undermined Perez's position...
...The conference ended in a stalemate, but at las...
...Venezuela called an footsteps...
...but the move backfired as the majority of OAS member na- STEVE ELLNER tions, themselves ruled by dictatorships, extended solidarity to (Steve Ellner is a member of the faculty at the Universidad the Somoza regime by condemning outside interference in de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezeula...
...The fault of "proper" or official way for the bishops its wholeness...
...As should have anti-Communists was surely the rumpled control in any near future, and the infla- been obvious from Yugoslavia at the figure of John Foster Dulles, tramping tion that has come from such lavish ex- very beginning of the postwar period...
...China is more sensibly cupiers and from fragmentalizing freestory, from the dramatic 2 a.m...
...In an additional letdown for Perez..the military confrontation...
...strument of nationalism in spite of the nary system of treaties and alliances with Nation by Communist nation, begin- internationalist airs it gives itself, just as principalities and powers, all too many of ning with Yugoslavia...
...Venezuela President's plan for the creation of a special OPEC The refusal of the United States to accede to major Third fund to bail out debt-ridden Third World countries, presented World demands for a new world economic order, or to reward at the December 1977 OPEC meeting...
...The President Perez was far ahead of the Carter administration in Carter administration may rejoice at the prospect of Perez's his support for human rights in Nicaragua...
...What neither the Soviet Union nor Allen, at the then still new CIA, was American anti-Communism as foreign the United States has been able to running a kind of Murder, Inc., against policy has fallen apart, and it assuredly stand-and hence to understand-is the freely elected leaders in the new nations has...
...Hence, it was Mao, is almost wholly to be sought in with Coca Cola, the famed industrial now, at last, possible for the United American governmental attitudes, which leader-may now begin to supply...
...When the example...
...The Pinnacle of this suc- has been out of fiscal control for years states totally united and utterly subsercession of dedicated and single-minded and gives no sign of getting back under vient to the Soviet Union...
...tele- concerned with industrialization, the lance pillagers on the order of Chiang...
...Secretaries of banded, continuing alliances with tin-pot States was profoundly wrong in basing State and the durable but unendurable military dictators in many parts of the its foreign policy on the existence of a chief of the secret political police, J. world, a defense establishment which worldwide conspiracy of Communist Edgar Hoover...
...Perez's five Somoza...
...It must also mean that the United cession of Presidents...
...and for rashly stepping a conservative bloc led by Saudi Arabia and prodded by the into a conflict which threatened to involve the nation in a U.S...
...Upon the first signs of popular resistance following years in government have posed a challenge to the United the assassination of journalist-politician Pedro Joaquin States, but it was one that this country could have easily met...
...in order to deter the prices of certain raw materials by means of strategically attacks by Nicaraguan troops in pursuit of Sandinista guerriltimed purchases...
...reported that Mao was stronger and better with the women who wanted dialogue It has been noted often in recent years organized than Chiang and would win concerned with ordination is only one that the golden era of participation anany conflict between them...
...Next the lightning took 30 years...
Vol. 106 • January 1979 • No. 1
