Word: exploiters
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Racism is created and promoted by greedy men for economic reasons. By paying black workers less you can threaten whites that they can be replaced by blacks. Thereby you exploit both. But racism goes beyond economic reasons. When people believe in racism they become less than human and they teach their children to be the same way. They become half human. They are filled with fear, mistrust, and hatred. Racism is evil. It should be fought...
...Science in the hands of the people who rule this country and who run our industries is being used to exploit and oppress people all over the world," Dr. Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, head of the team which isolated a single gene last fall, told the American Society for Microbiology in Boston last night...
...that Cuba was importing rice, eggs, vegetable oils, tomatoes, potatoes, beans-plus cornflakes and Coke. Cuba's sugar plantations had among the lowest yield in the world; there were no technological innovations since the 18th century. (Migrant laborers who work a 14-hour day are after all cheaper to exploit than machines.) Half the sugar land went uncultivated for the sake of speculation and keeping the world prices up. The situation was: sugar for the international market, but no subsistence crops for the Cubans...
...humanism and concern with life that is necessary for a "good" revolutionary. But the peculiar kind of humanism we have inherited in the West has remained healthy while Africans were taken to Europe and then to America as slaves, and while the great humanist nations proceeded to subjugate and exploit the rest of the world. That humanism remained intact while the world suffered. Most of Western poetry does not just extoll abstract values, but pretends that they are incarnated in their respective societies. That poetry does not help...
...Richard Nixon, Cambodia posed the most difficult problem of prognosis (see THE WORLD). Since the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk three weeks ago, the capital of Phnom-Penh has lived in fear that 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia might exploit confusion in the countryside to march on the capital and upset Premier General Lon Nol's government. From his exile in Peking, Sihanouk has promised to return at the head of an army of liberation. For Washington, the dilemma is: what to do if the situation gets so bad that...