Word: continentality
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With its finely wrought balustrade, the Doric columns supporting its portico, the Villa Pietri looked like a Roman nobleman's villa that had somehow been misplaced on the edge of the African continent. It was the headquarters from which Gaddafi directed the global activities of his terrorist network. The Libyan...
The economic consequences of immediate majority rule would be especially dire for South Africa, the most industrialized nation on the continent. Very few Blacks have had access to the education required of industry managers or government administrators. The poverty of now-independent colonies is mute testimony to this point: Botswana...
The geopolitical consequences of immediate majority rule through revolution seem equally unpalatable. South Africa would almost certainly become a socialist state aligned with Soviet bloc nations; the Soviet Union, directly or indirectly, supports most liberation movements suppressed by the Afrikaners, Socialist states have arisen in post-independent Mozambique and Angola...
But Europe did not take seriously American concerns for its security and pointed out that the Soviet Union is unlikely to be a less reliable supplier than the Continent's other potential suppliers of natural gas, which include Algeria, Iran and Libya. Most of Europe's natural gas...
By that time, the U.S. had adopted the doctrine of "flexible response," with the aim of first meeting a Soviet attack with conventional weapons and escalating to tactical and then strategic nuclear weaponry if necessary. The Germans, still worried about U.S. resolve, prevailed upon Washington to accept the doctrine of...