Word: secessionism
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In 1967 a classified State Department study of French-Canadian nationalism speculated that the secession of Quebec might lead the other nine provinces to sue for union with the U.S. Some Americanized Canadian businessmen dreamed of the ultimate merger. But the author of the report called the dissolution of Canada...
! Several years later, the KGB station in Ottawa leaked some phony documents on CIA letterhead purporting to show that U.S. agents were secretly aiding the Quebec Liberation Front and in various other ways trying to destabilize the central government. An American spook took his Soviet counterpart to lunch and said...
Q. We must ask you about the Baltics, secession and nationalism.
No one, least of all the principals, doubts that a fourth Indo-Pakistani war would be devastating. Some observers even fear that such a conflict could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. India exploded its initial nuclear device in 1974, and Pakistan is widely believed to...
The activists of the J.K.L.F. who blow up banks and government offices and kill soldiers and civil servants work for the Front's deputy commander, Sheik Hamid, who moves easily through Srinagar. If patrolling soldiers come too close, people in the neighborhood pour into the alleys to shout pro- independence...