Word: sectarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book is praised by critics and wins a literary prize, but Muslims find some of the passages offensive. Soon there are threats, protests, demonstrations, riots in scattered places -- India, South Africa, the Asian quarters of British cities. India bans the book to avoid sectarian violence, and is soon followed by Pakistan, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. Then a mass protest is staged outside the American cultural center in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan; six people are killed, a hundred injured. Another dies during protests in Indian-controlled Kashmir...
...region's long record of sectarian violence, this was the first attack to claim the life of a lawyer. Finucane's murder sent shock waves through Northern Ireland's 1,450-member legal fraternity as Protestant and Catholic lawyers alike feared that they too could become terrorist targets...
...Cats and the hoopla still surrounding Eliot attest to the poet's surprising vitality. By many standards he should have been old news by now. He professed conservatism, elitism and sectarian Christianity at a time when the fashionable tides were running against all three. As a shy, uncertain young man, he was torn between the dictates of his proper upbringing and the tug of his emotions. He looked inward and saw himself coming apart; he looked outward and saw Western civilization dissolving into chaos. He tried to heal these rifts with words: "I have measured out my life with coffee...
Even in Ulster, with its long history of anger and bloodshed, an attack on a funeral had seemed unthinkable. The incident raised worries not only in Belfast but also in London about a fresh cycle of sectarian violence: before the cemetery attack 14 civilians and members of the security forces had been killed in Ulster this year. In an effort to head off terrorist reprisals, Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pleaded with both sides to avoid "revenge and retaliation"; otherwise, he said, "the mad cycle of violence will...
...party. In order to get to the top of the ticket, a contender had to show broad-based appeal to a variety of bosses and tribal groups. But these days the process is so long and so many people run that it rewards those who can arouse the sectarian resentments or cater to the particular demands of fervent factions, notes Political Scientist Nelson Polsby...