Word: nationalist
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...assembly. But the five rightist parties, who collectively polled 60%, had other plans. Their leaders met the morning after the election at the home of Salvadoran Popular Party Leader Francisco Quinonez to begin talks on forming their own coalition. Led by D'Aubuisson's ultraright Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), with its 29% of the vote and 19 assembly seats, the five parties were held together mainly by personal animosity to Duarte. "The fact is," explained one foreign diplomat, "Duarte represents change in a society that resisted change for 50 years and was entirely geared to the right...
VIETNAM was on the verge of drastic change at the end of World War Two. The Vietminh coalition, building on a tradition of anti-Japanese resistance, rallied around nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh to throw off French imperialism. An ally of the United States during the war and a communist, Ho issued a declaration of independence resembling our own and attempted to negotiate a French withdrawal. Peaceful efforts failed, and a revolution of liberation began. Instead of working for an independent Vietnam, Washington backed the renewal of French colonialism...
Despite the assortment of parties, two figures dominated the election: President José Napoleón Duarte, 56, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 38, a former national guard intelligence major who personifies the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA...
...Aubuisson's ARENA party, on the other hand, stressed an aggressive mixture of patriotism, anti-Communism and free enterprise, along with an all-out war on guerrillas who refuse to accept a general amnesty. As one ARENA document put it, "Nationalist Republicans believe in God, the country and liberty, in that order." D'Aubuisson would like to reverse the bank nationalizations carried out in March 1980 and replace the state-run peasant cooperatives of the current land reform with individual holdings...
Jenkins' strong opposition came not only from the two major parties but from the Scottish Nationalists, who favor outright independence and usually command 10% to 15% of the vote in the district. Bordering the University of Glasgow, Hillhead is the best-educated constituency in Scotland, a community that stretches from handsome, rosy sandstone houses on sloping streets to grubby shops near the River Clyde below. The Tories came in with an edge, possession of the seat for more than six decades, the past 33 years served rather lacklusterly by Sir Thomas Galbraith, who died last January. In his stead...