Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Junius R. ("J.R.") Jayawardene, 76, has tried to mollify moderate Tamils by offering them jobs, encouraging them to use their own language and delegating some local responsibility to them. But Jayawardene had also ordered his troops to stamp out the separatists by force and, 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...
...above all, living proof that after only five years of self-conscious democracy, Spain can elect a Socialist government without a national upheaval or a military coup. Holding a solid majority in both houses of the Cortes, the Socialists have moreover steered a reassuringly moderate course in economic policy. Separatist Basque terrorism remains a serious problem but appears to be on the decline...
...complaints about the BSA have been directed as much at the organization's style as at its substance. The radical tone of many BSA leaders during the 1970s alienated both Blacks and whites, who came to perceive the groups as "separatist" or simply overly militant, current Black students say. The focus of the organization "was more anti-Establishment than it needed to be," says current BSA president Alan C. Shaw '85. Adding that the organization has been perceived as anti-white. Shaw says that by toning down the group's former combativeness he can reduce that separatist image...
...career have. A coalition of Third World and women's groups found themselves in confrontation with the Freshmen's Dean's Office (FDO) this month when the FDO refused the list their organizations' orientation events on the official Freshmen Week calendar, FDO officials argued that the events were "separatist" but the students--who rallied outside the office for several days--pointed out convincingly that Harvard's cares to make them feel at home only when it is immediately useful to do so; earlier this fall the College briefly floated the idea that Radcliffe's official student government might no longer...
That feminism is seen as separatist or concerned exclusively with women troubles many of the respondents. One Radcliffe respondent, 21 associates feminism with "supporting the rights of women over the rights of men" A second contends that it means "divisiveness and isolationism which encourages women to focus on the quality of their lives and not on the general quality of all lives...