Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Jewish Nationalist Avraham Stern formed an even more bellicose splinter group, the Lohamei Herut Israel (Israel Freedom Fighters) in 1940, Shamir promptly enlisted and began acting on Stern's assumption that Zionism's principal foe was not Germany but Britain. He soon became a leader of the notorious, sometimes ruthless "Stern Gang," which in 1944 assassinated the British resident minister in Cairo, and is believed to have committed the 1948 murder of Swedish U.N. Mediator Folke Bernadotte. Twice Shamir was imprisoned by the British, and twice he escaped. In 1941 he stole out of detention, grew...
...peaceful transition to post-Marcos democracy had tragically lengthened. Deprived of their most visible leader, the President's moderate opponents called for Marcos' resignation and for the formation of a caretaker government prior to national elections. The moderates, however, grouped in an umbrella organization called UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization), stopped short of calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections scheduled for next year...
...Salvadoran leaders that the U.S. would not be sacrificing their cause and that the planned meeting in San José could be valuable. Neither Magaña nor any other prominent officeholder objected publicly to the meeting, and even Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the far-right Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA) declared, "If [Stone] thinks it convenient to talk to the guerrillas and give us his recommendations...
Your article on the role of the black nationalist African National Congress (A.N.C.) in the Pretoria bomb blast [June 6] says "the A.N.C. receives financial support, training and weapons from East bloc and African governments and the World Council of Churches." That statement could give the impression that the council provides military training and weapons to the A.N.C. The Special Fund of the council's Program to Combat Racism has provided grants to the A.N.C. for refugees, agricultural projects, publications, legal-defense costs and other humanitarian purposes. There is no reason to believe this aid has been used...
...walked resolutely alongside teenagers. Little girls riding on the shoulders of their fathers flashed the victory sign. If the procession, at times, had the air of a carnival, there were also moments of solemnity as the marchers joined in a chorus of O God, Who Has Protected Poland, a nationalist hymn sung by the shipyard workers who went on strike in Gdansk in August...