Word: secessionist
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...societies in which they operate, their power and influence in Indonesia and Malaysia appear to be growing. The Asian economic meltdown has traumatized those societies and has fueled deep nationalist resentments of the United States. In Indonesia, it also ushered in a period of volatile political power struggles and secessionist and inter-communal violence. That has created an atmosphere fertile for the Islamists to exploit skepticism over U.S. intentions in the war on terrorism. Although they represent no more than 12 percent of the Muslim population, Indonesia's radical Islamists are actively recruiting young men for training for jihad. President...
...ever to get to," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. To avoid being spotted by satellites, bin Laden and his associates use human couriers to relay messages, who sometimes travel on foot rather than in cars. He has been extra careful since Chechen secessionist leader Dzhokar Dudayev was blown up by a Russian rocket while using a satellite phone. Though the CIA has often been criticized for its failure to infiltrate Islamic fundamentalist groups, Ranstorp is more forgiving. "The U.S. has expended as much energy and time as it feasibly could to get close...
...maneuver the remnants of Congo's civil government, launching the newly-independent nation's long slide into institutional theft and ultimate bankruptcy. Lumumba was placed under house arrest, and after he escaped, was captured, tortured and turned over to Moise Tshombe who had tried to lead a secessionist movement in Katanga, the Congo's richest province. With the blessing of both Belgium and the U.S., Lumumba was nearly beaten to death, then taken out to an isolated forest and shot. His body was hacked to pieces and then dissolved in acid in order to prevent its use as a symbol...
...After beating Megawati out for the top spot, Wahid had been canny enough to offer her the Vice Presidency as consolation two years ago. But while his equivocation on dealing with secessionist rebellions - and his decision to bow to Western pressure and decolonize East Timor - angered the generals, Megawati made common cause with them as heiress to the nationalist mantle of her father, Sukarno, who had been Indonesia's first president. Last week, Wahid sought to head off his ouster by offering to transfer most of his authority to Megawati, but the Vice President and her backers appear to have...
Chris Sullivan, the current editor, had faxed me a 10-point response to national press accounts calling Southern Partisan racist, segregationist and secessionist. So I expected to find a considerable operation, one equal to the wrath against it. But at an unremarkable strip mall, I entered an office that contained the entire paid staff: Sullivan and one assistant. The quarterly magazine has 8,000 subscribers and generally runs between 50 and 60 pages. Sullivan uses free-lance writers--columnists and essayists, mostly--who are paid between $200 and $500 per article. "We're not in the news because...