Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Picked to form a new government last week, replacing the pro-Jadid Premier Youssef Zayyen, was Salah Bitar, 53, Baath co-founder who holds that "to take Marxism as an absolute and comprehensive ideology conflicts with the Arab revolution, which is basically nationalist." Syria would remain socialist, if somewhat less stridently. Abroad this would mean happier relations with its moderating socialist as well as non-socialist Arab neighbors (last week Damascus received an envoy from Kuwait to renew negotiations for a $56 million Kuwaiti loan), and at home a better break for what remains of Syria's long-beleaguered...
...Paris in his presidential Caravelle for medical treatment after a fall, turned on his benefactor to endorse Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other three eliminated candidates in opposing De Gaulle. The most important of them, pro-Europe, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet, could not quite...
...Rhodesia's northern, black-ruled neighbor, Zambia is expected by other black-nationalist regimes in Africa to lead the fight against Ian Smith and his white-minority government. Kaunda certainly wants to defeat Rhodesia's whites, but not in a racial war. He wants white troops to go into Rhodesia to bring down Smith. But Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson is nowhere near ready to face the prospect of the Queen's white British troops shooting Rhodesia's white British troops. And Kaunda admits that if he asked for Russian help, he would stand...
...Eire Catholic minority. Fading at last are the old hatreds that date back 45 years to the Troubles, when British Black and Tans hunted down the guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. In fact, the emotional climate has so changed that the chairman of the pro-Eire Nationalist Party, Londonderry Businessman Eddie McAteer, counseled his once fiery followers: "No more unsuccessful insurrections, please. It is still risky to twist the British lion's tail. Just tickle...
...force walked out in protest. Factories, shops and restaurants closed. Street sweepers laid down their brooms. At Bulawayo's fashionable Hotel Victoria, guests were forced to make their own beds. Tear gas and threats to fire all strikers finally restored a semblance of order, but not before black nationalist agitators had made their first successful show of force -and had been given their first martyr...