Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese Communist shells slammed into the Nationalist offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu last week, ending a three-month lull in the Formosa Strait, military strategists of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization sounded a Red alert at a SEATO meeting in Washington. Warned Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in chief in the Pacific: "The Southeast Asian peninsula is a target for Communist China, and Laos is the first point of entry." Another danger spot, said Felt, was shaky South Viet Nam, under "worsening" pressure by Communist guerrillas (TIME...
...beat was Patrice Lumumba, 34, the tall, goateed radical from Stanleyville who last week was storming through the back country in a cream-colored convertible. Lumumba is a former postal clerk who served six months in jail for embezzling $2,500 ("I used the money to promote the nationalist cause"), was jailed again for starting riots, but emerged in time to join last winter's independence negotiations in Brussels. His followers sell orange-colored Lumumba shirts and party cards to raise money; any black man caught in Stanleyville without his party card was apt to get a beating from...
...project of the Generalissimo's eldest son. Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo. As head of the Vocational Assistance Commission for retired servicemen, he conceived the road as a way to provide useful work for the growing number of aging veterans of the 400,000-man Nationalist army. Last week many an old soldier was staying behind to take work in logging camps or else settle down on a little mountainside farm with a Formosan-born wife. The road is also expected to boost Formosa as a tourist attraction. A new 60-room hotel has been built...
Last week, secure in the knowledge that Afrikaners outnumber South Africa's English-speaking citizens, the Nats rammed through legislation for a nationwide referendum on the question. But Parliament rang with the hot passions of the Boer War. Nationalist newspapers exhorted Afrikaners to contribute toward a $420,000 fund to carry on the republic campaign. But in Natal, the stronghold of the English-speaking population, thousands of antirepublicans flocked to Durban's electoral offices to check their registrations for the vote expected in October...
Many feared the Nationalists would pull out of the Commonwealth, destroying the economic advantages of preferential tariffs and British investment money. Others were simply apprehensive at the prospect of greater Afrikaner control that a republic would bring, along with an acceleration of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's harsh policy of apartheid. Taking heart from Verwoerd's steady recovery in a Pretoria hospital (last week doctors successfully operated to remove both of the assassin's bullets), the Afrikaners riposted by accusing the English-speakers of divided loyalties. Nationalist M.P. Dr. Carel de Wet shouted: "The real enemy...