Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer, I attended a speech by the rabid Black nationalist and Muslim leader, Louis Farrakhan. After a very personal frisking, I found that I was one of three white spectators in a crowd of 3000. I had expected to be outraged by some of Farrakhan's usual anti-Semitic rhetoric, but there was none that...
...important, probably, was the realization that Quebec, whose 6.5 million residents comprise nearly a quarter of all Canadians, could not hope to stand alone either politically or economically. Quebec voters said non to separation in a 1980 referendum. They repeated the message two years ago by turning against the nationalist Parti Quebecois long led by Rene Levesque and overwhelmingly electing a Liberal government headed by Robert Bourassa, 54, the same man they had ousted from office...
...such firm loyalists, ideology knows no borders. "I think Bruce Springsteen is a blind nationalist," proclaims the former trooper in the easy drawl he has copied from Florida deejays. "Sure! Just look at that title, Born in the U.S.A.!" Even here, though, things are not quite as clear as they seem. In the ex-soldier's spacious home off once splendorous Fifth Avenue, a picture of Che Guevara stares across at an equally large poster of Barry Manilow. Downtown in central Havana, a 15-year-old schoolgirl goes him one better. On top of her dresser she has carefully fashioned...
...year was 1949. Rapidly losing his battle with Mao Tse-tung for the Chinese mainland, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his son Chiang Ching-kuo to Taiwan. Strictly policing the island, the younger Chiang helped secure it for more than 1 million Nationalist refugees against both Communist infiltrators and the 7 million less-than-welcoming native Taiwanese. On May 19, 1949, martial law was imposed...
...addition, the growing commercial clout of the developing industrial world has made such countries less susceptible to superpower domination. So too has rising nationalist sentiment. "Quietly, erratically, the capacity of the developing regions to resist intrusion and to shape their own destiny has been increasing," notes University of Texas Professor Walt Rostow, who was Lyndon Johnson's National Security Adviser...