Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divided on most major political issues. Moreover, even a united U.C.D. could muster only 165 votes in the 350-seat Cortes, eleven short of a majority. To escape governing with a minority, Calvo-Sotelo needed the support of several small regional groups in the Cortes, above all the Basque Nationalist Party...
...police custody in Madrid. An autopsy showed evidence of torture. The scandal forced the arrests or resignations of several police officials, brought tens of thousands of angry Basques into the streets -and all but ended E.T.A.'s growing isolation among Basque moderates. Under the circumstances, the Basque Nationalist Party informed Calvo-Sotelo, there could be no possibility of open support for the new government. The Basque troubles were further aggravated at week's end when suspected E.T.A. gunmen kidnaped the consuls of Austria, El Salvador and Uruguay from their homes in Pamplona and Bilbao...
...before World War I, with its cult of speed, male potency, antifeminism and violent struggle, supplied the oratorical framework for Mussolini's rise to power and set the stage for his appearance. But this may say no more than that the impact of technology on the more febrile nationalist-romantic minds of Italy produced remarkably similar effusions, in art as in politics...
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has long pursued a strongly nationalist policy that tried to lower the proportion of foreign ownership of sensitive economic areas. But, so far, the American reaction to the Canadian invasion has been warm. In the mile-square beachfront community of Surfside, Fla., near affluent Bal Harbour, Canadian businessmen have almost finished two high-rise condominiums, valued at $46 million. Next month the town will hold its annual "Salute to Canada" week...
Jawharlal Nehru is reported to have said in private that independence did not remove British control over his country's politics as he would be the last Englishman to rule India. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he took the reins of the nationalist movement following the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi, also educated in England. Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, educated at Oxford, became prime minister in 1966, two years after the death of her father. Dom Moraes, an Indian journalist based in London and also educated at Oxford, wrote Mrs. Gandhi's biography, while claiming to have little familiarity...