Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem of the succession, he proposed the creation of a collective presidency made up of two or three leaders elected by the assemblies of each republic and one or two by each province. Ironically, the national debate over Tito's proposals merely brought the country's separatist tendencies into the open...
...Soviet troublemaking. But there is no doubt that the Soviets would like to see Yugoslavia disintegrate. If Tito manages to arrange a genuine succession, he will have made another great stride toward achieving a reasonably democratic Marxist society. If he fails, Yugoslavia could splinter under the weight of separatist feeling and Soviet meddling...
...year ago, Newark's unionized teachers struck for 16 days. An arbitrator granted their demands for a share of control over class sizes, curriculums and assignments to such nonteaching duties as patrolling halls and lunchrooms. Future disputes were to be hammered out in binding arbitration. But militant, separatist blacks, led by Writer Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), immediately suspected that the union would use its power to block reforms and frustrate "community control...
...Separatist trends are possibly much harsher among even younger blacks. Racial tensions infest all too many high schools (as well as the armed forces); a segment of young blacks has become totally alienated from America, even from other blacks. Many of the kids, says Dan Watts, editor and publisher of Liberator magazine, "are a lot more married to the Third World." Moreover, they "are not talking about what happens tomorrow. They couldn't care less." Their anger is cold; they cynically, knowingly, discuss "the system" and its inequities...
...defects as a revolutionary tactic. Thomas Buck, who sees the Berrigans once a month at Danbury, reports that they talked it over following the kidnaping of Pierre Laporte and James Cross by Quebec separatist terrorists. "They deplored the Canadian thing," says Buck. Only after Hoover's Nov. 27 charge, he insists, did he and the Berrigans consider kidnaping as a possible technique for the peace movement. "We were always exploring these ideas," he says, "but that's what it was ?exploring an idea. They concluded that it would be counterproductive...