Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overtures from Moscow and Peking. The island's population is wildly mixed -421,390 Hindus, 227,129 Creoles descended from European plantation owners and imported African slaves, 133,441 Moslems, 25,067 Chinese and a handful of British and French. Most previous attempts to form parties that crossed communal lines had been ineffective. The tensions have now eased considerably, largely because fiery young
Leaders of the women's liberation movement have shown a penchant for oddball causes-from ban-the-bras to communal child rearing-that leave many women cold. Now the liberationists have trained their ire on a new target: the distorted image of women in advertisements. And this time the militants are gaining wide support among women...
Even if you are willing to work twice as hard as any man, it is untrue unless you can 1) hire a more economically oppressed woman to do your shit-work for you 2) work out some kind of communal arrangement (difficult in most communities where people still adhere religiously to their notions of family privacy) or 3) make your husband or man share equally in tasks like cooking, cleaning and child caring (I defy the wives of most "emancipated" men to tell me this is easy...
After an hour, the Moscow agents decided to take Amalric to the capital, where he has one room in a crowded communal apartment. Protesting that he had a right to be present while his cottage was being searched, Amalric refused to budge. Two KGB men lifted him up by the arms and led him away...
...enemies are the national bourgeoisie and Yanqui imperialism," Toro announced to his "January 26th Compound," which is also known as the "Paradise Commune." Members adopted an eleven-point code of conduct. Among other things, it forbade fighting, wife-beating, card games and the "capitalist sin" of alcohol. Along with communal chores, members read from the writings of Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. At least half of Paradise's adults are unemployed, but leaders boasted that funds were coming in from bank robberies. As Toro said: "We do not promise...