Word: backlasher
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...political backlash has been under way as well. Conservatives, many of them older party members in powerful jobs, resented their loss of control over ! the economy. They were not pleased when Deng forced their colleagues into retirement and replaced the retirees with young reformers. During last spring's annual National People's Congress, the opponents of reform made a determined stand. They persuaded the session to call for a period of "consolidation," during which no major economic reforms would be undertaken...
...five years as head of Khad, the dread Afghan secret police. Although the transition was managed peacefully--the previous three Afghan leaders had been killed during transfers of power --Soviet tanks took up positions in the hills outside Kabul, and armored units patrolled the city to prevent a violent backlash from Karmal loyalists. The leadership change seems to have been timed to highlight a major Soviet military offensive in the eastern part of the country and coincide with the opening of the seventh and last round of the Afghan-Pakistani peace talks in Geneva...
...primary agents of change, the government of President P.W. Botha has made significant reforms in response to international pressure, most recently announcing the demise of the hated pass laws. The role of international pressure has been crucial both in instigating such reforms and in preventing a more violent backlash against progressive forces within South Africa...
Terry Eastland, Meese's principal spokesman,said the campus backlash against the KennedySchool dean's decision to honor Meese "is just nota matter of overwhelming significance...
Betty Friedan has dubbed it a "deceptive, backlash book." Erica Jong has called it the kind of work that "could start a revolution" and "serve as blueprint for a new era of feminist activism." Those heated reactions were only a small part of a new controversy slowly beginning to churn in U.S. feminist circles. Its focus: a newly published 461-page study that examines why, despite the furor of the feminist revolution in the '60s and '70s, women in the U.S. labor force remain substantially poorer than their West European counterparts. The book's most startling claim: the feminist movement...