Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Initially, relations were not particularly fraternal between the D.L.C. and Paul Kirk, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Kirk and other traditional Democrats viewed the D.L.C. as a kind of separatist movement of crypto-Republicans. Yet now Kirk seems almost brotherly toward the D.L.C., talking about the "positive, constructive relationship" he has with its members. Kirk has acted on the D.L.C.'s diagnosis of some of the party's problems: he has reduced the number of its special-interest caucuses and increased the proportion of elected Democrats who will be delegates at the 1988 convention. Kirk is also...
...himself with economic and social development, land reform and centralized government. Nonetheless, he soon began to fall back into the tradition of Tammany Hall-style politics that, as one American official wryly notes, is "part of the U.S. legacy in the Philippines." He also ran afoul of a simmering separatist insurgency among the Moros, an Islamic minority in the south of the heavily Roman Catholic country, and felt the first stirrings of the fledgling Communist New People's Army...
Most observers attribute the Liberals' triumph to a decline of separatist sentiment among Quebec's 4.6 million voters, some 80% of whom speak French. Over the past decade, laws requiring special treatment for the French-speaking majority have caused more than 100,000 English speakers, many of them leaders in finance and business, to leave the province. The subsequent economic drain has worsened unemployment, now nearly 12%. At the same time, many French speakers feel confident that their language and culture are now adequately protected. The result: few wish to risk any longer the economic costs of separatist politics...
Farrakhan has made some friends too. In Los Angeles, Thomas Metzger, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who heads a racist group called the White American Political Association, attended Farrakhan's speech and kicked in a $100 donation. Metzger, a self-described white separatist, likes some of Farrakhan's ideas, but says, "I don't see myself moving any closer to him since that would defy logic...
Some see bilingual education as potentially worse than that. Former California Senator S.I. Hayakawa believes the result of language maintenance could be to foster divisiveness like that of the French-speaking separatist movement in Canada that peaked in the 1970s. As an intended antidote, he introduced and still lobbies for a constitutional amendment that would make English the official U.S. language for government affairs...