Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini and a loudspeaker over which a voice intoned repeatedly, "God is great" and "There is but one God." At a midnight rally Thursday about 1,000 students, aligned with the leftist Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), tried to stage a demonstration but found themselves confronting a group of right-wing Islamic extremists. Moderates crying "Allahu akbar!" (God is great) quickly moved in to act as a buffer between the two groups...
...frequently been targets for protest. In 1829 a Persian mob-egged on by nationalistic mullahs in the court of the Shah-stormed the Russian embassy in Tehran and massacred almost the entire staff. Xenophobia figured large in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion (so called because it was led by a group named the Righteous and Harmonious Fists), when rebels seeking to wipe out foreign influence in China laid siege to the diplomatic quarter in Peking. The Boxers held the quarter for eight weeks, until an international expedition of 19,000 troops captured the city and freed the thousands held hostage. That...
...past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty. In 1968 Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was shot during a kidnaping attempt. Ambassador to the Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. was murdered in 1973, when members of the Palestinian Black September group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack...
...controlled by the Ayatullah's supporters. The Iranians also own some U.S. military spare parts stored in a warehouse at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base and awaiting shipment. But, says David Bauer, an economist for the Conference Board, a New York-based research group, "I can't think of a single Iranian investment in a factory operating...
More generally, Reagan blames Washington for turning Americans against one another. He says: "We have seen politicians in recent decades set people apart. They have helped to create special interest groups, whether on racial or religious lines or on ethnic lines, whether it's labor or management, whatever; and they have done it for selfish political reasons. Then they can appeal by giving or offering a promise to one group that they'll get special treatment. They are appealing to envy and greed and pitting one group against another...