Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia is even dragging its feet on the organization of future peace-keeping missions. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko last week rejected a compromise proposal by eight small nations that would allow the Security Council's five permanent members-the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and Nationalist China-to "opt out" of paying for any peace-keeping missions they opposed rather than block the missions entirely...
...Philippines' presidential elections were expected to be the closest in the islands' history. Certainly the campaign had been the longest, costliest and most frantic. For an entire year, President Diosdado Macapagal, 55, the Liberal Party's choice for reelection, had swapped bombas (personal attacks) with the Nationalist Party challenger, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, 48. In addition to bombas, Macapagal and Marcos spent $8,000,000, a princely sum in Filipino politics, to swamp the country with a deluge of political pamphlets, placards, and tear-jerking biographical movies. But last week, as 8,000,000 Filipinos went...
...seldom drinks. He and his wife, who is the daughter of a politically powerful family that controls Leyte and Samar, have three children. Until last year, Marcos was a leading Liberal Party man. But then, sensing Macapagal's yearnings for a second term, he bolted to the Nationalist Party, where he elbowed the other presidential hopefuls aside...
Whether they could actually come to power, though, is much less certain, for they lack unity and capable leadership. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda has castigated them harshly: "Call them nationalists! I call them stupid idiots who do not know what they are saying." Even in the present crisis, the two Nationalist parties do not cooperate. While they threaten lurid bloodshed, they have not been able to organize even a makeshift government in exile, much less a general strike in Rhodesia. Their weakness may well be Smith's greatest strength...
...Only the third walkout in the Security Council's history. The others: Russia's angry departure during the Azerbaijan debate in 1946 and again in 1950 as a protest against Nationalist China serving as Council president...