Word: secessionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to an Amnesty International report, had sent Tamils to prisons in which they have been brutally tortured. Forced in May to invoke the fifth state of emergency since Jayawardene took office in 1977, the Sri Lankan government last Saturday proposed a constitutional amendment that would ban the secessionist party, as well as all separatist activity...
...Nebraska Governor Charles Thone, whose wife is a panhandle native, the secessionist prospect, however farfetched, is troubling. For one thing, says he: "I'd hate to be married to a foreigner...
Making good on Carter's vow in the event of a showdown in the gulf could be a logistical nightmare. Administration strategists are concentrating on dealing with four possible emergencies. Three are based on the Afghanistan experience-"invitations" to Moscow by secessionist Azerbaijanis in northwestern Iran, or by Baluchis in southeastern Iran, or by an embattled leftist government in Tehran that eventually might take over from the mullahs. The fourth possibility is a Soviet thrust into Pakistan, under the pretext of hot pursuit of Afghan rebels. In each case, the U.S. would have to contend with an overwhelming Soviet...
...secessionist movement is headed by Jimmy Stevens, 58, who drove bulldozers before emerging as a separatist leader of Espiritu Santo. "Moli" (chief), as his supporters call Stevens, was elected Chief Minister of Vemarana after the takeover. Holding court in a former dance school that now bears the pidgin-English sign VEMARANA OFIS, he told TIME Correspondent John Dunn: "Time is not important here. We will be open for business in a few days. We want to be free to make our own decisions, to run our own economy and have a picnic when we feel like having...
...into Afghanistan and Pakistan. Successful secessionist movements could tear away parts of some of those countries as well as of Iran, leaving a number of weak new countries ? the kind that usually tumble into social and economic chaos ? and dismembered older ones. All might be sub to penetration. Anarchy in Iran could also trigger a conflict with its uneasy neighbor, Iraq, which shelled border areas of Iran three weeks ago. The geopolitical stakes there would be so great that the superpowers would be sorely tempted to intervene...