Word: nationalist
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DIED. Sharif Abdel Hamid Sharaf, 41, Prime Minister of Jordan since December 1979 and a strong Arab nationalist who was one of King Hussein's closest advisers; of a heart attack; in Amman. A distant cousin of Hussein's, he became Ambassador to Washington and the U.N. after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Following his appointment as chief of the royal Cabinet in 1976 he had been a hard-line advocate of Jordan's close ties to other Arab states and to the Palestinians...
...Ukraine, 36 human rights activists have been convicted since 1976 on charges ranging from hooliganism to sexual offenses. In Kiev, both Jewish and Ukrainian activists have been severely beaten by KGB agents. In one celebrated case last year, witnesses say they saw two men force a popular Ukrainian nationalist composer, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, 31, into a KGB car. Three weeks later his body was found hanging from a tree; his eyes had been gouged out. Such acts of brutality-still rare but apparently on the increase-are strictly illegal. The KGB, however, remains capable of acting as a law unto itself...
...most destructive and audacious act of sabotage in South Africa's history. In a series of coordinated nighttime raids against petroleum complexes in the small oil towns of Sasolburg and Secunda, black nationalist guerrillas cut their way through chain-link fences surrounding two adjoining refineries in Sasolburg and then planted several limpet mines with expert precision. The explosions destroyed a total of eight fuel storage tanks and set off towering fires that raged for nearly two days. A third installation at Secunda, 90 miles east of Johannesburg, was rocked by seven bomb blasts but suffered only limited damage...
Responsibility for the bombings was claimed in London by the newly reorganized military wing of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), a radical nationalist group that was banned in 1960. After years of sporadic hit-and-run attacks, A.N.C. guerrillas have stepped up their activity in recent months. Last week's strike demonstrated a new level of proficiency in their determined struggle to free the country's 20 million blacks from the domination of 4 million whites...
...this month has presented Parliament with a constitutional reform bill that would give a minor consultative role to non-whites but not to African blacks. Botha's limited racial reforms, however, fall tragically short of even moderate black requests for parliamentary representation and an end to racial discrimination. Nationalist guerrillas have now shown that they are ready to go after South Africa's industry to back up their demands...