Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beset by troubles in other areas where Iran's restless ethnic and religious minorities live, the seven-month-old government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is moving desperately to keep its grip over the chaotic country. One measure of its new-found realism was the disclosure last week that Tehran is negotiating with the U.S. for the delivery of at least part of the $5 billion in American arms and equipment that the Shah had ordered. Iran is still anxious to sell back to the U.S. the 78 advanced F-14 fighters that the Shah bought in the mid-1970s...
...Young's diplomacy crucial to Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. He mobilized a voter registration drive, mustering black support for Carter. When Carter later blundered into saying that any neighborhood had a right to maintain its "ethnic purity," Young objected but stood by him and helped convince blacks that he had not intended a racial slur. Asked if there was anyone to whom he was indebted after winning the nomination, Carter named one: Andy Young...
...since 1976 and an old comrade of Ho Chi Minh's, fled to China, becoming the first high official known to have defected from what had always seemed a remarkably close-knit regime. In Peking last week, Hoan, 74, charged that his country's abuse of its ethnic Chinese minority was "even worse than Hitler's treatment of the Jews" and that Hanoi had become "subservient to a foreign power," meaning the Soviet Union...
...emigration of Viet Nam's ethnic Chinese would continue, he said, but in a more "orderly" way. In fact, the exodus of the boat people, which totaled some 110,-000 during May and June alone, has all but stopped since July as a result of Hanoi's efforts to slow the flow. Indeed, Hanoi boasts that since June, it has prosecuted 4,000 people for running rackets to smuggle people out of the country...
Criminal Judge Thomas A. White was picked to fill a vacancy in 1977. Why? "I'm Irish," he says. "Of course, I'm qualified," he hastily adds, but he matter-of-factly explains that the Democratic Party needed an Irish judge to "balance the ethnic makeup" of their judicial slate. One of 16 children of an I.R.A. member who fled Ireland for the U.S. in 1928, White, who has six children of his own, is president of the Irish Society of Philadelphia, an American 'Legionnaire and a booster of a boys' club. He is also...