Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outpourings of nationalist cheer have occurred before. Many historians, from Henry Adams to Arthur Schlesinger, have postulated that the U.S. undergoes regular historical cycles 20 to 30 years long, periods of great social combustion alternating with quiescence, change followed by consolidation. After the War of 1812 and its embargoes, the frontier opened up, the economy took off, American fractiousness subsided, and the extraordinary era of good feelings commenced, lasting for more than a decade. The 1920s coincided with a less constructive but perhaps giddier national mood that found expression in the election of two laissez-faire Presidents...
Duarte has been less successful in reaching an accommodation with the 60-member National Assembly, where his Christian Democrats, with 24 seats, lack a majority. To a certain extent, he has benefited from the low profile assumed by his archrival, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the cashiered army major whose Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) holds 19 seats. Since D'Aubuisson visited the U.S. in June, he has dropped out of sight, reportedly to enter the shrimp fishing business. Perhaps unwisely, Duarte has neglected to woo Francisco José ("Chachi") Guerrero, leader of the moderately conservative National Conciliation Party. Guerrero commands...
...bronze statue of Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., the Philippine opposition leader slain by an unknown assassin at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, on his return from exile in the U.S. As spotlights played on the figure, the crowd broke into cheers and then into the once outlawed nationalist anthem, Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). A few demonstrators even hugged the motorcycle cops. On such notes of strength and serenity, rather than with the violence prophesied by the government, Filipinos last week marked the first anniversary of Aquino's murder in the largest protest outpouring in Manila since...
Friendship '84 was conducted in accordance with the rules, regulations and traditions of the Olympic movement. While protesting that these were not "alternative" games, Soviet officials played up the parallels whenever possible, starting with blatantly nationalist ceremonies. On a gray and drizzly afternoon, the opening festivities at the 103,000-seat capacity Lenin Stadium were as much a political display as an athletic one. To the rousing tunes of a huge military band, 8,000 Soviet athletes marched around the oval with the same stiff-legged gait as Soviet troops. There were no marchers from any of the other...
...strongest action was the forced retirement of General Jorge H. Arguindegui, who was named Chief of Staff by Alfonsin shortly after the President took office. General Ricardo Pianta, a career officer said to be independent of both the nationalist and conservative wings within the armed forces, was appointed to succeed Arguindegui. For the moment there appeared to be no threat of a military coup. But there was an ominous warning: as the dismissals were being announced, a bomb exploded on the roof of a Buenos Aires TV station that was airing the details of an official report on the abuses...