Word: nationalist
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...literature and a telephone hotline for women with family problems. The government closed both facilities. When she returned to Taiwan in 1978 after graduating from law school, Lu rejoined the group of lawyers, government officials, businessmen, doctors, students and workers comprising the growing opposition to the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), Nationalist Chinese Party--the only legal political party in Taiwan. What brought the group together was a desire to protest the oppression they felt from the mainland Chinese who established their own "Free Chinese" state on the island after the Communist victory...
Harvard and Radcliffe students commemorated the 15th anniversary of the death of black nationalist leader Malcolm X this weekend with a series of panel discussions, films and social, cultural and religious events sharing the theme, "Black Students: What We Must...
...gunmen shot and killed Oliver Saunyama, a top official in Sithole's party, in front of his suburban Salisbury home. Sithole blamed Mugabe's hit men for the murder and predicted the beginning of "an era of political assassinations." That fear was apparently shared by Muzorewa and Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo; they have ordered bulletproof Mercedes-Benz sedans for their campaign appearances and travel under heavy security guard. One noteworthy fact about the violence is that all the victims are black; not one white-owned farm has been attacked since the ceasefire...
...democratic movement has urged the Nationalist Chinese authority to end the 30-year old martial law, to release political prisoners, to allow greater press freedom, and to allow the opposition to form a party. The objectives of Taiwan's democratic movement are in agreement with American ideals of a free and democratic society. The arrests of the opposition leaders should thus be strongly protested...
...having fought, let us now say: 'It is all over.' " Those conciliatory words were spoken by Joshua Nkomo after he emerged from a green and white Zambia Airways jet onto the tarmac of Salisbury airport. The bulky, silver-haired black nationalist leader had returned to Rhodesia, after more than three years of exile, to begin campaigning for next month's independence elections. Because of a flurry of death threats, security at the airport was extremely heavy: grim reminders of lingering white bitterness over Nkomo's role in Rhodesia's bloody seven-year guerrilla...