Word: nationalist
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...Fuentes was never a "confrontational leftist," Womack said. Instead, the novelist-diplomat is a "traditional Mexican nationalist." Fuentes was "one of the most active intellectuals" in Mexico's National Liberation Movement, an early 1960s coalition of leftists within Mexico's ruling Revolutionary Institution Party (PRI), he added...
...foray lasted only a few minutes, but Pretoria claimed that more than 60 people were killed, including 41 members of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), the black nationalist movement that last week belatedly admitted responsibility for the Pretoria bombing. Mozambique officials, however, reported that only six died in the raid over Maputo, five of them civilians. Correspondents who flew into Mozambique to view the aftermath of the air strike generally agreed. But they also came across black South African refugees, some of whom were apparently A.N.C. members. Said one angry survivor: "They shot us in South Africa, and they...
...Central America. We reject the idea. Our position is a symmetrical one. We oppose intervention by the U.S. and by any other country. The solution for us is the suspension of all forms of military intervention by all parties. It seems to me that intelligent action may assure the nationalist character of the revolutionary movements of Central America. If we have peace in the region we can build economic and social development on the basis of the peace...
...camps of Ban Sangae and Nong Samet, which house 96,000 civilians and serve as a center for the Khmer People's National Liberation Front. That group is led by Son Sann, 71, who is perhaps Kampuchea's least-tarnished and therefore (to the Vietnamese) most threatening nationalist leader...
Zeldin's longstanding interest in regionalism fills his new work. "Culture," he notes, "now divides France instead of unifying it." Having passed through nationalist and internationalist phases. France is presently in a pluralist stage whereby culture "is a battle for the right to live freely," he says, quoting minister Jack Lang. This notion underlies much of Zeldin's analysis of social mores as well. Defining a French national culture is "an unattainable goal." Styles of life "are ceasing to be homogeneous." There is "French taste, and French good taste." Contrary to previous stereotypes. "There is no established French attitude toward...