Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to sound apocalyptic about these developments. Education is always in ferment, and a good thing too. The situation in our universities, I ; am confident, will soon right itself. But the impact of separatist pressures on our public schools is more troubling. If a Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to use the schools to disable and handicap black Americans, he could hardly come up with anything more effective than the "Afrocentric" curriculum. And if separatist tendencies go unchecked, the result can only be the fragmentation, resegregation and tribalization of American life...
...first tasks will be to contain separatist violence and address a thicket of economic problems, including an $80 billion foreign debt and a 17% inflation rate. After that, Rao will need to restore cohesion to his party's fragmented ranks...
...Iranians have said they are not seeking to turn southern Iraq, which is predominantly Shi'ite, into a separatist state. Do you believe that...
...past, independence, a break from Baghdad clean and neat. That is an outcome $ none of the allies desire. For one thing, they do not want to be held responsible for Iraq's partition. For another, the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and the Soviet Union might come down with separatist fever as well...
Preservation of the empire has given the party a potent appeal. One notable scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...