Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assert civilian control over restive soldiers, Calvo-Sotelo had to crack down on the known conspirators, but not so hard as to trigger another putsch. To remove the roots of discontent in the armed forces, he also needed to show rapid progress in curbing the Basque separatist terrorists, whose bloody attacks against the paramilitary Guardia Civil and police had inflamed the franquista officers. Here too, Calvo-Sotelo had a problem...
...first the party seemed willing to cooperate. King Juan Carlos had visited the Basque area early this month, and moderate Basques had been outraged at the murder of a nuclear engineer by members of E.T.A., the Basque separatist organization. Then a fortnight ago, a suspected E.T.A. terrorist named José Arregui died in police custody in Madrid. An autopsy showed evidence of torture. The scandal forced the arrests or resignations of several police officials, brought tens of thousands of angry Basques into the streets -and all but ended E.T.A.'s growing isolation among Basque moderates. Under the circumstances...
...Third World students at Harvard are 'separatist," as some "perceive," it is only because of a certain, necessarily biased, perspective. Harvard admits a conspicuously small number of minorities and hires an indiscernible number of minority faculty. Simply by virtue of their small numbers and accompanying assimilation pressures, most minority students understand more about whites than majority students do about Third World students. "Separatism" is an entirely normative term: if anyone at this University is "separatist," it is the whites. Whites seem to be able to harbor ill feelings toward Third World students or to remain ignorant of their plight...
...draw on for support, given the exclusion of Third World students for the first 330 years of Harvard's existence. Furthermore, the report does not deal directly with a key element of students' initial proposal for a Third World center: minority admissions. If Third World students are conspicuously "separatist," as some "perceive," it is only because Harvard admits a consciusly small number of minorities. The Gomes report skirts the issue of minority admissions, so vital to increasing cooperation, understanding and consciousness. In this regard, we stop just short of labeling the report a sham. While it recognizes that legitimate, unmet...
This week, Canada's ten provincial premiers huddled contentiously in a downtown Toronto hotel to find some way to obstruct or reform Trudeau's latest package, which he hopes to present to the British government by early 1981. Premier Rene Levesque of Quebec, head of the separatist party that decisively lost a plebiscite last spring on the right to negotiate with Ottawa for sovereignty-association, characteristically produced the most biting quote. He called Trudeau's plan a "proposed coupt d'etat...