Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's revolution enters a new, secular phase as Ayatullah Khomeini and the mullahs are pushed aside. There is a power struggle-possibly even civil war-between various factions. Leftists, perhaps self-avowed Marxists, come out on top, but the unrest continues. Separatist Kurds stir up more trouble than ever from bases in Iraq and in NATO ally Turkey. Muslim militants declare a holy war on the godless Marxists and take to the hills. An embattled government in Tehran appeals to Moscow for help, and the Soviet Union accuses NATO of interfering in Iran's internal affairs. Authorities...
...including Jewish Israelis--to national self-determination. Moreover, this right must be extended to all Palestinians, whether in exile from their homeland, on the West Bank and Gaza, or in Israel. Although my personal belief is that this must eventually be accomplished within the framework of a unitary, democratic, secular state in Palestine, that is a matter for the disputants of the conflict to settle. Thirdly, and this follows from the above two points, the Palestinians must be represented in any negotiations pertaining to their future by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which, whether we like...
Purists of the Olympics argue a bit romantically that the Games must be above politics, that regimes and secular squabbles come and go, that political issues are always transient, that the Olympic spirit is transcendent. That is what Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Panglossian founder of the modern Olympics intended. During the twelve centuries of the ancient Games, warring states and tribes suspended their homicidal business every four years and flocked to the sweet valley beyond Mount Kromion to compete for crowns of wild olive. Now, some athletes complain, a reverse logic applies; the Games get suspended at the first...
...religious leaders, Jewish "refuseniks" and activists for the rights of such national groups as the Ukrainians and the Lithuanians. Two weeks ago, Father Dmitri Dudko, 57, was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. As revered a figure among Russian Orthodox Christians as Sakharov is among his secular adherents, Dudko is an eloquent preacher whose sermons circulate widely from hand to hand. One day after Sakharov was flown to Gorky, two contributors to the underground magazine Poiski (Quest) were arrested in Moscow; a third dissident, in the town of Vladimir, was detained for questioning by police...
...bondsmen as the feudals had done." Unlike their counterparts in Victorian England, though, these reformers were not grim. They were as bewitched as the rest of the world by Viennese high culture, the sheer sensuous pleasures of concert hall and opera house. They became crusading dilettantes, promising themselves a secular paradise, "Strong Through Law and Peace" and "Embellished Through...