Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Armed Forces of National Resistance, has raised $40 million in the past two years by kidnaping foreign executives and holding them for ransom. Even more threatening from the government's standpoint is the widespread support won by the 70,000-member Popular Revolutionary Bloc, a broad-based movement that occupied the cathedral in San Salvador last May, triggering an attack by police that resulted in the deaths of 23 protesters...
...Middle East political landscape seemed filled last week with what the diplomats call signals, and almost all of them involved the Palestine Liberation Organization. Even as the Administration was busy protesting that President Carter had been misinterpreted in his analogy comparing the Palestinian cause with the U.S. civil rights movement, Washington was actively reviewing U.S. posture toward Yasser Arafat's P.L.O...
...basic premise of the New Right philosophy is a rejection of Rousseauist egalitarianism and the democratic ideals that follow from it. Writes Philosopher Alain de Benoist, 35, a founder and leading spokesman of the movement: "The enemy is not 'the left' or 'Communism' or 'subversion' but this egalitarian ideology whose formulas . . . have flourished for 2,000 years." New Right partisans hold that individuals and races are divided by insurmountable barriers of hereditary inequality; in support of this view, they cite the much debated research by such American scientists as Arthur Jensen, William Shockley...
Anyone having spent time in the gay and lesbian rights movement will know that destroyed flyers and ignorant taunts are par for the course. Yet it is nevertheless somewhat amazing that Harvard Students, many of whom arrive fresh from superior early education and intelligent, liberal parents, would respond in the crude manner of the residents of Stoughton Hall. Likewise, it is amazing that Cambridge, the center, some say, of liberal education and general enlightment should respond with the tearing down of signs...
Originally, modern interest in ancient pagan practices was spurred by research early in this century by British Anthropologist Margaret Murray, who sought to dispel folklore that witches were invariably malevolent. But today's neopagan movement has its roots in the counterculture. Though many neopaganists live otherwise ordinary lives as, say, bank tellers or bartenders, others gather in communes. Psychologists say that neopaganism functions as a form of "folk therapy," a sort of ritualized search for self-worth in an increasingly complex society...