Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disastrous involvement in Viet Nam. Each succeeding tragedy involving American lives twitches a neo-isolationist nerve. The lesson of Viet Nam, many argue, is that the U.S. should resist the urge to send troops blundering into explosive regions where they are destined to be snared in regional quarrels and nationalist conflicts. Vague, lofty notions of maintaining an American empire are not worth the loss of our soldiers' lives...
...same time, many whites, fearful of political concessions to the country's black majority, lined up behind the total-apartheid Conservative Party, giving it 26% of all votes cast and easily eclipsing the liberal Progressive Federals as the country's second major party. For the first time in Nationalist rule, the government found itself with a right-wing party as the official opposition. The lurch to the right sets the stage for a struggle between the Nationalists and the Conservatives, led by former Dutch Reformed Church Minister Andries Treurnicht, to see which party can sound more determined to protect...
Malta lies in the Mediterranean halfway between Western Europe and Libya, and its politics reflects its geography. Since Malta gained independence from Britain in 1964, elections have been decided between the pro-Western Nationalist Party and the Labor Party, which favors close ties to Libya and the East bloc. Now, after 16 years of Labor rule, Maltese voters have elected a Nationalist government...
State President Botha appealed to white fears with a law-and-order campaign. He touched nationalist sentiment by frequently telling foreigners to butt out of South African affairs. Through a heavy newspaper advertising blitz, reinforced by intensive coverage on national television, the government charged that the P.F.P. was soft on terrorism and Communism and ready to sell out white South Africa to the country's blacks. The Afrikaans-language press harped on the same theme, making much of a photograph of P.F.P. Stalwart Helen Suzman being embraced by Winnie Mandela, wife of the long-imprisoned black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela...
...Worrall, South Africa's former Ambassador to Britain, came within just 39 votes of beating Minister of Constitutional Development Chris Heunis, the architect of Botha's reform program and his possible successor, in Heunis' once safe Helderberg district near Cape Town. In the Afrikaner university town of Stellenbosch, another Nationalist defector, Esther Lategan, was beaten by an incumbent M.P., though she managed to reduce her opponent's majority from 5,622 votes in 1981 to 1,781. Nonetheless, with the liberal parties in disarray and only one independent candidate actually making it into the new Parliament, the challenge...