Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ended the annual deadly rite of the rainy season. Every year, before the heavy summer storms, the South Africans launch punishing raids into southern Angola to pre-empt attacks by the black nationalist guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). And every year, once the rains provide them with foliage cover and vital water supplies, the rebels cross the border into northern Namibia, hoping to bring an end to South Africa's 17-year control of that nation. This year, for the first time. South African troops came into direct confrontation with those of Marxist...
...independent monarchy under King Faisal I of the Hashernite royal family. But Britain and France were at work redrawing the region's boundaries. Faisal's sovereignty ended after only a few months when the French claimed Syria under a League of Nations mandate. To weaken the Arab nationalist movement, the French created contemporary Lebanon by carving from Syria the Christian region around Mount Lebanon, the predominantly Muslim Bekaa Valley and the coastal cities of Tripoli, Beirut, Sidon and Tyre. Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French...
...Opening address to Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies in Dar-Es-Salaam...
...From 1976 to 1982 it was the single strongest influence on the Arab world, a threat not only to Israel, its declared enemy, but to every Arab government that did not offer it support. Not since Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser has a Middle Eastern leader embodied Arab nationalist aspirations as did P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. He had no country of his own to run, but in the eyes of many Palestinians he enjoyed greater legitimacy than most of the Arab world's leaders...
Only two days before the vote, President Kenan Evren, leader of the military coup three years ago, implicitly urged support for another candidate, retired General Turgut Sunalp, whose Nationalist Democracy Party was supposed to mop up Turkey's heavy right-wing vote. Instead, Sunalp's party straggled in a poor third with 23% of the vote, behind the moderate leftist Populist Party, which scored...