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DID
INCREASING NUMBERS
of Thirld World leaders & First World intellectuals?! In the 1960s & 1970s the word 'liberal' became a term of
abuse in many Western universities. North America and Western Europe experienced growing social unrest as
radical left-wing movements strove to undermine the liberal order. Students in Cambridge, the Sorbonne ànd
the People's Republic of Berkeley thumbed through Chairman Mao's Little Red Book & hung Che Guevara's he-
roic portrait over their beds?! In 1968 the wave crested with the outbreak of protests & riots all over the so-
called Western world!? Mexican security forces killed dozens of students in the notorious Tlatelolco Massacre,
students in Rome fought the Italian police in the so-called Battle of Valle Giulia, & the assassination of Martin
Luther King sparked days of riots and protests in more than a hundred American cities! In May students took
over the streets of Paris, President De GAULLE fled to a Franch military base in Germany, & well-to-do French
citizens trembled in their beds, having guillotine nightmares? By 1970 the world contained 130 independent
countries, but only 30 of these were liberal democracies, most of which were crammed into the north-western
corner of Europe! India was the only important Thirld World country that committed to the liberal path after
securing its independence, but even India distanced itself from the Western bloc & leaned towards the USSR
aka Soviets!? In 1975 the liberal camp suffered its most humiliating defeat of all: the Vietnam War ended so
with a North Vietnamese David overcoming an American Goliath. In quick succession communism thus took
over South Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia. On 17 April 1975 the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, fell to the
Khmer Rouge. Two weeks later people all over the world watched on TV as helicopters evacuated the last
Yankees from the rooftop of the American Embassy in Saigon. Many were certain that the American Empire
was falling. Before anyone could say 'domino theory', in June Indira Gandhi proclaimed the Emergency in
India, & it seemed that the world largest democracy was on its way to becoming yet another socialist dic-
tatorship?
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