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...that if a pan-Islamic force gained sway in Chad, there would be trouble in other former French colonies on Chad's border-Niger, the Central African Republic and Cameroun. Backed mainly by the Saras, who account for just 17% of the population, Tombalbaye's one-party dictatorship was near collapse when he asked for French troops under a defense pact with Paris. The French garrison at Fort-Lamy was increased to 2,000 infantry, marines and air force men, but the legionnaires have handled most of the fighting. Since April, they claim to have lost three...
...Dwarf. In a region increasingly dominated by dictatorship and plagued by the sort of border skirmishes that broke out anew between El Salvador and Honduras last week, what makes Costa Rica different? Partly, there is its enduring system of small landholdings -caused by the absence of a large Indian labor force-which from the earliest colonial times produced a strong, propertied middle class. (Large landholdings did not come into being until the second half of the 19th century, when coffee became the major export crop.) Then, too, there is Costa Rica's historical preoccupation with education, which resulted...
...almost axiomatic with consensus historians that violent revolutions do more harm than good. But in the best revisionist work to date, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Barrington Moore Jr. of Harvard makes a strong case for the necessity of revolution. Without such a revolution in its past, he declares, a nation cannot achieve industrial democracy. Revolution is necessary to destroy the reactionary power of the agricultural interests that impede modernization: both large landholders and peasantry...
...methods and there are violent methods." (P. Comblin, "La Iglessia y el Tercer Mundo," La Nacion, Aug. 9. 1970, p. 8. From this summary, the document appears to be a Marxist analysis, even examining the problem of state power, and advocating something which sounds a good deal like the dictatorship of the proletariat, though that is not the term used. The statement was presented by some 500 priests, mostly Chileans and Argentines. It is significant that Guatemala's tightly censored newspapers would carry this...
Middle Americans believe that the radical young are operating on a vast misunderstanding of their nation. Brandeis Political Scientist John Roche tells an anecdote about the Chicago convention troubles. As he was being collared by a cop, a dissident shouted: "Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat!" Raising his nightstick, the cop retorted: "I am the proletariat." Bash bash...