Word: backlashers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military court under a questionable "banditry and terrorism law," sparked opposition not only from the 2,000,000 ethnic Basques of northern Spain, but also from the country's Catholic clergy, its lawyers, its labor leaders, its students and some Cabinet ministers. Even more threatening was the backlash; army hard-liners demanded special powers to crack down on pro-Basque demonstrations, and hundreds of thousands of aging Falangists swarmed into the plazas, alternating anachronistic fascist salutes to Franco with menacing protests against "weak governments...
...time, a backlash developed among Americans who viewed the environment as a digression from pressing concerns like poverty, racism and the war. They noted that ecologists, with their holistic view of nature, proclaimed dangers on every front but failed to set clear priorities for action. Ghetto blacks were incensed when white collegians buried perfectly good cars as a protest against smog. Others wearied of the apocalyptic warnings of the "New Jeremiahs" ?ecologists with an almost masochistic appetite for doom, and demographers with passion for slogans ("Stop at two"). Even ecologists scoffed at faddists who denounced colored toilet paper...
There is a backlash built into every exposé, witness the case of Don Luce, 36, a U.S. correspondent in Viet Nam. Last spring Luce (no kin to TIME'S founder) discovered political prisoners of the Vietnamese government locked into underground "tiger cages" that were being maintained by American dollars supporting the Vietnamese penal system. Luce told visiting Democratic Congressmen William R. Anderson and Augustus F. Hawkins, then escorted them on a tour of the cages, during which Congressional Aide Tom Harkin snapped a number of damning pictures. The Congressmen broke the story, and Luce supplied material...
...backlash among serious critics: Were her paintings any more than a game with the retina? Indeed, they were; and the proof is a full-scale retrospective, opening this week at the Kunstverein in Hannover, Germany...
Tennessee, where liberal Democrat Albert Gore is expected to lose to William Brock, a major beneficiary of the Republican "Southern Strategy"; an upset victory for Gore could indicate a backlash against the recent extremes of the Republican campaign...