Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Archbishop Le Huu Tu, 73, Roman Catholic Vietnamese religious leader and nationalist, who in the late 1940s formed his own paramilitary force to fight with Ho Chi Minh against the French, then in 1954 fled South, where he fought the Communists and, despite failing health, devoted himself to resettling and assisting the 1,000,000 refugees from the North who followed his example; of cancer; in Saigon...
...Today there are only two kinds of statements a black man can make and expect that the white press will report. First is an attack on another black man calling him an Uncle Tom [a charge McKissick himself has made once or twice] or a fanatic or a black nationalist. The second is a statement that sounds radical, violent, extreme-the verbal equivalent of a riot-Watts put into words...
...flying PBY into a sophisticated operation with 24 aircraft, mostly antiquated DC-3s and C-46s. Though 1966 profits of $2.9 million were modest by international-carrier standards, C.A.L. executives nevertheless point proudly to the fact that they have increased revenues 106% in the past four years. Indeed, Nationalist China's first jet airline now bills itself as the fastest growing Asian company since Sony...
...lure of Castroism and independence from the influence of the U.S. has captured the imagination of many a Latin American nationalist. However because of the relative in significance of the Communist Party in Argentina and the workers monetary mentaity, Romero finds that most of the Argentines are anti-Castro. A few of them he admits may feel twinges or sympathy for their Latin American brothers who have had the courage to tell the Yankees...
Although Vorster obviously has no intention of scuttling apartheid overnight, the few changes he has made so far have given moderate South African whites the first hint of encouragement in nearly two decades of Nationalist Party rule. "The best that can be hoped for," notes Johannesburg's influential Financial Mail, "is that sufficient non-whites will respond to any relaxation of apartheid that is forthcoming to make the Nationalist Party feel it was worth making. The worst that can be feared is that the government's good intentions will be snubbed, encouraging South Africa to retreat into even...