Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elaborately carved "long houses" and their sacred burial grounds, suspect some of the moves were engineered simply to dispossess them of their own land. In fact, South Vietnamese settlers have already taken over some of the vacated farmland areas. South Viet Nam's Minister for the Development of Ethnic Minorities, Nay Luett, says that he will move fast after a cease-fire to stake out land for the hill tribes. But local Vietnamese officials are not likely to cooperate. SaysLuett, himself a Montagnard: "We will continue to have very great problems...
President Nguyen Van Thieu has shown some concern for the plight of the hill people, abolishing official discrimination. He also created the Ministry for the Development of Ethnic Minorities in 1967, and named Luett, one of the relatively few well-educated Montagnards, as its current head. But Thieu recently jolted tribespeople who had hoped to produce more educated leaders to shepherd them into their changing world. He eliminated the draft exemption that was used by some young Montagnards to get an education, and roaming press gangs quickly swept 2,000 of the 14,000 Montagnards attending Vietnamese schools into military...
...learn that he has made the most political film of the year. On the surface the movie is an epic celebration of 19th century Swedish immigration to the promised country. But within its rich textures is an oddly lucid explanation of some current American phenomena-among them the ethnic clashes in Newark and Canarsie-and for the landslide re-election of Richard Nixon...
...concerns the rules governing the selection of convention delegates. The McGovern commission reforms attracted many recruits to the party and gave them instant responsibility by setting what amounted to quotas for them at the convention. While younger people and minorities were welcomed, however, old-line regulars, and labor and ethnic groups were to a large extent shut out. Some argue that the election was already lost when faithful Democrats gazed at the convention on television, did not see a soul on the floor they recognized, and did not care for those they did see. The prospect...
...North, school integration, crime and other symptoms of the "social issue" will continue to divide traditional Democratic strongholds. Given the right candidate, Democratic leaders think, most of the blue-collar, ethnic vote can be recaptured. Said Muskie after the election: "We've got to assure working-class Americans as well as poor Americans that their concerns are high in our priorities." For the past few years, however, the Democratic Party has been drifting away from its moorings among blue-collar workers; Mc-Govern's candidacy simply speeded up the flight. The intellectuals who plan party strategy...