Word: exclusionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COUNTRY MUSIC AT ITS WORST IS like Marlboro Country, peopled with pseudo cowboys in tight jeans, ten-gallon hats and boots made from cute animals. One senses a moral cancer beneath the surface: the all-American spirit of the music, far from including all Americans, actually seems a form of...
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DEADLINE. AND ANOTHER backdown by Saddam Hussein, for what seems like the zillionth time. This time the Iraqi dictator had moved surface-to-air missiles into position to shoot down allied planes enforcing the no-fly zone established by the U.N. over southern Iraq. That provoked yet...
But for how long? The moves continued a pattern aptly dubbed "cheating and retreating." On one occasion after another -- most notably when inspectors were trying to get into suspected nuclear-bombmaking sites -- Saddam has defied U.N. restrictions on his activities only to pull back just enough, and just in time...
Admittedly, drawing a bright line of exclusion on the right is not as easy as it once was to draw it on the left. The left had an entrenched political party (Communist) and clear foreign enemy (the Soviet Union), association with which was a prima facie reason for excommunication. But...
While many people assailed Bill Clinton's Cabinet nominations last month as affirmative action at the highest level of government, some groups were complaining about their continued exclusion from this country's highest political offices. Sure, Clinton went a long way in meeting his promise to from a cabinet that...