Word: internationalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently. William Yandell Elliott, director of the Summer School in Kissinger's time and legendary conservative king of the Government Department, tutored Kissinger as an undergraduate and later appointed him director of the seminar-a program they masterminded together but kissinger ran alone. Elliot wanted Kissinger to be the internationalist in Washington that he had always hoped to be and would probably have approved of Kissinger's decision to approach the FBI as the proper way to protect Harvard from potential communist encroachment. David Landau '72 writes in Kissinger: The Uses of Power, that even measured against the standard...
...Being a Moynihan journal, this volume is naturally laced with witty anecdotes, erudite citations and dapperly scattered bon mots. But above all, Moynihan says in his preface, he has written to restate his political argument. In part, at least, A Dangerous Place asks to be considered as a liberal internationalist manifesto...
...considered a great merit to have participated in an internationalist mission," says Filipe Suárez, 48, a C.D.R. official. "It is understood that someone who gives up a year or so of his life to help in Africa will be guaranteed his old job back." More to the point, many young Cubans, especially those with higher education, have difficulty finding work after they finish school, and they know a certificate of African service will help them on their return. Because of a postrevolutionary baby boom and the success of Castro's anti-illiteracy campaign, the Cuban job market...
...letters from women of all ages, including ones in their 70s, asking to go as cooks. One of the most important changes in Cuba since the revolution is that women who were afraid to go out of their houses 20 years ago are now requesting permission to go on internationalist missions...
...resort to officially conscripting soldiers for African duty. Privately, a number of Cuban officials admit that their routing of the Somali invaders of Ethiopia last spring was a walkover, but that there are no more easy victories in Africa. They also concede that while Castro and his legion of "internationalist fighters" may still be, by their lights, on solid ideological and military ground in Africa, they could be only a few false steps away from their own Viet Nam-like quagmire...