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Word: separatist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government issued a statement blaming the bombing on two Tamil separatist groups, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Blast in Sri Lanka 150 Killed, 200 Injured | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

...headlines of Lazarus' article clearly show this skewed coverage: "The Asian Quandary" and "Asian-Americans at Harvard--Finding an Identity Between the Assimilationist and Separatist Extremes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asian Americans | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

When a suggestion was floated to name the building, which houses the papers of W.E.B. Dubois, after the black separatist born in Great Barrington, the Black Student Union rose up in protest. To this day the library lacks a name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass to Honor Mugabe; Students Fix Up Library | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

Although he took part in the earlier separatist struggle, Garang is eager now to renounce any hint of a secessionist program. "We are not a Christian movement," he stresses. "We are not an African movement. We are a Sudanese movement. We cannot for a moment entertain sectarianism based on religion, on race or on tribe, because it is precisely such sectarianism that has blackened Sudan for 30 years. We are a unionist movement dedicated to the creation of a united new Sudan that uses its resources for the people and does not fight within itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...President demonstrated her resolve by not holding the negotiations with Misuari in Malacanang Palace but instead flying to Jolo, a Muslim stronghold in the Sulu Island chain 600 miles south of Manila. Misuari, leader of the separatist Moro National Liberation Front, has headed the Philippine Muslims' struggle for independence for the past 14 years from self-imposed exile in the Middle East. Following a two-hour meeting in a heavily guarded Roman Catholic convent, the two leaders agreed to hold talks that are expected to focus on Muslim autonomy in the south. Aquino told Misuari at one point, "Faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Show of Faith | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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