Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the U.S. Right now the sharing of power is working well. Says Thomas O. Enders, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State: "Those treaties are settled. We have a good strong operating relationship with Panama."But some Panama officials fear that, with Torrijos gone, radicals will try to reawaken strong nationalist feelings about the canal...
...adjoining Basque regions of France, where levies would be collected. In the past, businessmen who did not co operate were "kidnaped" or "kneecapped" (shot in the legs). Others fled the region. Recently, however, one industrialist refused to pay up and merely sent the extortion note to the moderate Basque Nationalist Party, which controls the regional parliament. He has heard nothing since from...
Stories of torture and casual brutality by police in the Basque country are endless. Xavier Arzallus, head of the moderate Basque Nationalist Party, cites the case of one of his party members whose home was raided by the Guardia Civil. The man was taken into the hills, threatened with a machine gun, then jailed for three days without food, water or sleep, while being tortured. Says Arzallus: "He is so frightened he refuses to bring charges." Another man, who did complain after Guardia Civil members ransacked his apartment building in a futile search for dynamite, claimed that the invaders...
...terrorist problem. But he has not repeated that statement. The question asked more frequently by moderate politicians in Madrid is why ETA keeps trying to provoke a right-wing coup that would take back everything the Basques have gained since Franco's death. Answers a Basque nationalist in exile in France: "It would only demonstrate what they already believe, that Spain is basically fascist, that they were right all along to continue fighting and that they have the people with them...
SAMA's coziness with Western bankers, and its safety-first investments, have stirred resentment among the Saudis' poorer neighbors. A leading Lebanese newspaper, As Safir, charged last month that Saudi Arabia was "a hostage of the West" held by "chains of gold." Arab nationalist groups throughout the Middle East argue that more of the Saudi surplus should be invested in the Third World...