Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinistas have helped the insurgency with their heavyhanded campaigns against the Miskito Indians and campesinos (peasant farmers). Suspecting separatist sentiments among the country's 100,000 Miskitos, most of whom live in the northeast region, Managua ordered the Indian towns burned and the villagers interned, but the measures only drove more Miskitos over to the contras. The campesinos are disgruntled by the Sandinistas' attempts to force them into communal farming; as a result, many of the 1,500 F.D.N. troops operating in the north-central section of Nicaragua are peasant farmers. Once recruited, they undergo a five-week...
...after the dismissal of right-wing officers last year, was named commander of the Brunete armored division that guards Madrid. The general was killed instantly and his driver gravely wounded. The attackers escaped, but credit for the assassination was claimed by members of the military branch of the Basque separatist organization ETA, which is blamed for 37 political murders this year...
...disingenuous in a social environment marked by final clubs, Hillel, the Catholic Students Center, and other institutions that reinforce a group identity. In the end, it is merely a matter of economics. Final clubs need not rely on the University for funds, so they can be as separatist as they wish, Jewish and Catholic alumni underwrite their respective centers. Minorities have not been on campus long enough in great enough numbers to establish an affluent alumni network, though, so their undergraduate experiences are tied to College policy...
Ironically, the University is not even consistent in rejecting "separatist" activities for minorities. The minority pre-freshman spring weekend is about as "separatist" as any event at Harvard, but the University continues to foot the bill. The reason is simple. Minority students do have special reservations about coming to Harvard; if the weekend were eliminated, many fewer minorities would matriculate. As long as it is trying to attract minorities, Harvard must address their special needs. Once minority students are here, though, the urgency is gone...
Harvard still has only 12 Blacks, and equally sparse numbers of other minorities, on a Faculty exceeding 700. For all of the University's talk of eliminating racial differences among undergraduates, there are few institutions as racially "separatist" around Harvard as its own Faculty Club. As long as minority students must face a near-uniformly white Faculty, it is unrealistic to pretend that there is nothing different about being a minority student here...