Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue behind the separatist rebellion is primarily economic. The more affluent Andhras charge that the economically depressed Telanganans have demanded special privileges for themselves ever since the two areas were joined together in 1956 to form the state of Andhra Pradesh. The discontent came to a head when the Indian Supreme Court ruled last October that a series of antiquated laws known as the "Mulki rules" were constitutional. The laws, enacted in 1918 to preserve jobs for local workers when the Nizam of Hyderabad was importing help from other parts of India to staff his princely concerns, give preference...
...Bobby Scale, 36, co-founder and chairman of the Black Panthers. Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton, 30, who founded the party with Scale in 1966, and now plays Mao to Scale's Chou, has explained the shift toward moderation-"The Black Panther Party is not a separatist party. We believe that it's a natural law of the universe that everything is interconnected and becoming more so because of the advancements in technology. As victims of racism, we won't take up that banner...
...with reason. Five major national groups compose the fragile fabric of Yugoslav unity: the fiercely independent Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians. Twenty years ago Tito granted a measure of autonomy to the Communist parties that rule Yugoslavia's six republics. But such decentralization served to encourage separatist aspirations. As a result, Tito decided to centralize and discipline the straying parties. Since last December, when Tito struck out against the leaders of Yugoslavia's 4.5 million Croats, some 1,500 alleged separatists have been tried for "counterrevolution" or for "stirring up national hatreds." Now he is cracking down...
Died. Sant Fateh Singh, 61, leader of India's 8,000,000 Sikhs during their separatist movement in the '60s; of a heart attack; in Amritsar, India. As spiritual and political guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic cult concentrated in India's Punjab region, Sant Fateh Singh used public fasts and periodic threats of self-immolation to pressure the central government to grant his people statehood within the Indian federal system...
Quebec Nationalism. Trudeau proclaims that the major issue is "the integrity of Canada"-meaning a continued place in the Confederation for Quebec, where the separatist Parti Québecois won 23.06% of the vote in provincial elections two years ago (but decisively lost two by-elections earlier this month). Trudeau has responded to Quebec nationalism by trying to assure French-Canadians of a larger role in Canada and particularly in government -which has cost him votes among English-Canadians. They have complained about French signs on post offices, and the use of their taxes to alleviate unemployment in Quebec, which...