From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-I: Malthusianism
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:47:02 -0600 (CST)


> 
> Sid:
> 
> Part I:*
> 
> You say "[when] Castro embraces Fujimori, is that a negotiation, compromise
> and  concession...collaboration?" 
> 
> The answer is no.
> 
> An *abrazo* between two Latin American heads of state is diplomatic
> politeness, and does not signify compromise, concessions, collaboration,
> etc., etc. And an *abrazo* is not an "embrace" in the sense you give it: it
> is the Latin American equivalent of a handshake.
<SNIP>

> En lucha contra toda gusaneri'a
> 
> Jim Blaut
> 
> *Replying here to two posts to avoid wasting too much of my three-a-day
> allowance on this stupidness.  


Chou En Lai thought John Foster Dulles was pretty silly to refuse to say
good morning or shake hands when they were the first arrival at the Geneva
Negotions one morning. Most communist leaders of the past have followed
ordinary "bourgeois" politeness in formal meetings with non-communists or
anti-communists.

Carrol


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