Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gunrunner and the only white member of the B.L.A. Buck had already been linked to the case, since two safe houses and one set of getaway-car license plates had been traced to her two known aliases. Boston's involvement implicated yet a fourth revolutionary organization: the black separatist Republic of New Africa...
...Except for New Brunswick's Richard Hatfield and Ontario's William Davis, the provincial premiers fear the new constitution could erode their power by increasing the leverage of the central government. Furthermore, another dimension should be noted: The constitutional package forms the crux of Trudeau's response to the separatist movement in Quebec and the growing regional loyalties of the resource-rich, solidly Conservative West. If the constitution is indeed brought home, on Trudeau's reasoning, Canadians will be able to share common rights without having their particular identities threatened. Francophones could be proud of their language and distinct culture...
...committee rejected a Third World center as a solution, arguing that such centers are often perceived as "separatist" at other schools and that "the perception almost always assures the reality." Instead, the group called in its January 1981 report for the creation of a Foundation to improve race relations by encouraging interaction between majority and minority students...
Canada's multiplying miseries are as much political as economic. Power sharing between the ten provinces and the central government in Ottawa has often been difficult, and separatist pressures in French-speaking Quebec have been especially troublesome. The most recent difficulty involves the burgeoning oil wealth of Alberta and other energy-rich western provinces, which have been waging a tug-of-war with Ottawa over energy pricing, taxes and revenues...
...used assassination first to fight the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, then to provoke democratic Spanish authorities into retaliating bloodily and repressing liberties in three of Spain's Basque provinces (see map). The terrorists' plan: to build popular resentment of far-off Madrid and to increase separatist yearnings among the historically disaffected Basques. In the past 13 years the ETA has killed more than 350 victims, carefully choosing as its targets police, army and political figures. One was Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the man Franco had hand-picked as his successor. In 1973 Carrero Blanco and his automobile were...