Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to Bush, Von Raab targets the foreign policy establishment for special scorn: "Maybe it is time for the war on drugs to take its place as our nation's top priority, to interfere with banking interests and Third World debt schemes. Time to interfere with State Department bureaucrats' quest to make the world safe for cocktail parties." State Department officials call Von Raab a "loose cannon" who lacks "a certain rationality." He responds . in kind, calling his Foggy Bottom critics "wimps . . . conscientious objectors in the war on drugs...
...clear that more democracy in Mexico does not mean a Mexico moving to the right but a Mexico moving to the left. There is a deep nationalism and a sense of social justice among Mexican people that Cardenas has identified with in a very mystical and mysterious way. He has become a symbol in a nation that has the most flagrant inequalities and injustices of any nation in Latin America, if not in the entire Third World. We are not the poorest country, but we are the most unequal. Cardenas has become a symbol of the desire for equality...
...state license plates on the roads will top last year's by as much as 10%. Roadside wax museums, water slides and reptile farms abound. Yet with some advance mapwork, visitors can reach well beyond familiar kitsch to centennial exhibits that speak directly to the westward movement and the nation's astonishingly recent past...
Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan charged in turn that Hanoi plans to "exterminate" the Cambodian people and nation and has no intention of withdrawing it troops from Cambodia next month as promised...
Diplomats from 20 countries joined in calling for a comprehensive peace plan, but none of their speeches Sunday and yesterday offered new proposals to end the nation's two decades of conflict...