Word: nationalist
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Born to a prosperous farming family in Tikrit, a small town 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, Saddam as a student eagerly joined the nationalist ferment against Iraq's pro-Western monarchy. In 1959, under sentence of death in absentia for his involvement in an assassination attempt against President Abdul Karim Kassem, a general who had seized power the year before, Saddam fled to Syria and Egypt. In Cairo he studied law and joined the Baath Party, a revolutionary group of Arab nationalists. He returned to Iraq in 1963, and by the time the Baathists staged their 1968 coup under...
...Vandam's problems is his toffee-nosed superior, Lieut. Colonel Reggie Bogge, who spends most of his time polishing a precious cricket ball and refusing to accept his subordinate's theory of the spy's existence. Vandam's pursuit is also thwarted by the Egyptian nationalist movement, which would prefer a German occupation to continued British rule. A leader of the movement is a young army officer named Anwar Sadat who announces with premonitory pride "I am going to be a hero...
...Nero (Black Order) exist largely underground and range in size from a handful to several hundred members. Their activities include both the open violence of the NAR, the dominant force in the ultra-right movement, and the more traditional politicking of Terza Po-sizione (Third Position), a legal, strongly nationalist organization that operates just this side of Italy's antiFascism laws...
...last major difference between AMNLAE and U.S. women's groups is that the former is not interested in building an international feminist movement. The only exception to AMNLAE's nationalist focus is its moral and financial support of female leftist guerrillas in neighboring E1 Salvador. Reyes notes that "these women are going through a similar process to that which we did. And it is in Nicaragua's interests to help groups fighting to establish other Central American socialist states...
...Israeli Knesset needed to shake its fist at the rest of the world in defiance and to fulfill some of its "nationalist needs" [Aug. 11]. Are the Jewish vote and money so important that Mr. Carter has chosen to sit idly by while the Israelis irresponsibly deteriorate the Camp David peace process...