Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chiang Kai-Shek memorial occupies several city blocks of space in the center of Taipei. Only a short walk from the presidential palace from which Chiang ran the nationalist Chinese government, it is easily the most striking feature of the city which many still hold to be the legitimate capital of all China...
...truthful and chaste behavior. The introspective Theravada school of Buddhism is predominant on the plains of Thailand and western Kampuchea, where the faith was once centered in the fabulous Angkor Wat. In Viet Nam, whose Mayahana school permits social concern alongside withdrawal of the self, Buddhists have sometimes supported nationalist movements, but rarely actively...
...have succeeded to a great extent in creating harmony, but it is too much to expect that in six months we could have transformed every individual in the community. " So says Robert Mugabe, the former nationalist guerrilla leader and self-proclaimed Marxist who took over as the first Prime Minister of independent Zimbabwe six months ago. Since then, he has allayed many of the widespread fears that he might plunge the country into Communism or racial chaos. Instead, the sternly ascetic Mugabe, 56, has preached a policy of national reconciliation and cautious gradualism in economic adjustment. In his sparsely decorated...
Already mired in Afghanistan, the U.S.S.R. would be reluctant to invade an other satellite, no matter how balky. But Moscow might have to move, if only to sti fle rumblings of discontent within its own borders. Estonian emigres in Stockholm report that there have been nationalist demonstrations at schools in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, as well as a strike at a tractor factory in the city of Tartu. Students in Tartu held protest rallies, demanding an end to the 40-year-old So viet occupation of their country. Walesa is characteristically defiant about the possibility of Soviet intervention. "Tanks...
Even if this evidence had not emerged, the mere event of a trial would certainly have exposed and mobilized deep divisions within the Chilean military. Unlike, for instance, Franco's Nationalist Forces, the Chilean military did not undergo the intensely unifying experience of fighting and winning a civil war. Instead, it conducted a campaign of indiscriminate terror against an unarmed civilian population. Far from promoting a spartan sense of unity, this experience deeply conflicted with the espirit de corps of an institution which had never performed praitorian functions...