Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the talks, Makarios defended the demand of the Greek Cypriot refugees to return to their former homes in the Turkish-controlled part of the island. But he accepted as a reality a separate Turkish ethnic state that will be a legitimate part of an eventual two-state federation. Denktas. said he was willing "to reduce the Turkish Cypriot-held share of the island from 40% to about 33%-and perhaps more. Both leaders agreed that further talks, scheduled to be held next month in Vienna, will cover such complex issues as the return of some refugees to their former...
Neither of the ethnic communities is altogether satisfied with the status quo. Though the island's 120,000 Turks have controlled the industrialized north since 1974, they lack the skilled manpower to operate the factories. As a result, Turkish Cyprus depends on mainland Turkey for more than half its budget. Even so, Turkish Cypriots are not nostalgic for their former life. They are keenly aware that they are only 18% of the island's 640,000 inhabitants, and they still fear the Greek Cypriots' enduring conviction that Cyprus is inherently Greek...
...University's brief will urge the court to interpret the Constitution broadly, permitting universities to implement a wide variety of affirmative action admissions procedures to achieve racial, ethnic and sexual diversity...
THERE WAS ONCE a time when family wealth, a well-known Yankee name and a Harvard education could take a man far in Massachusetts politics. The tradition began early with people like Samuel and John Quincy Adams and has continued--with minor ethnic variations--to the present day. Two former United States Senators from Massachusetts, Leverett Saltonstall'14 and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, who were a part of that tradition, and whose political significance went far beyond Massachusetts, have published memoirs about their years in politics, entitled, respectively, Salty: Recollections of a Yankee in Politics...
Smith said financials limitations have forced her to restrict the volume to prominent women of four major ethnic groups: blacks, Asian-Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians...