Word: separatist
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...campus. In spring of 1980 minority students had marched on Massachusetts Hall, demanding construction of a Third World Center to provide them with a sense of community and support. Their vision drew strong criticism from faculty members, students and administrators who argued that such a center would be "separatist" and would strengthen rather than soothe racial divisions. In an attempt to resolve the issue, President Bok appointed a committee chaired by Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, to examine the whole proposal. After a summer of research and an autumn of discussion, the committee returned with its conclusions...
...health care and literacy among the Miskitos. Sandinista volunteers and Cuban cadres made some headway, but the Indians soon bridled at the accompanying ideology-and the fact that literacy classes were initially held only in Spanish. Disgruntled Miskito leaders quickly became a major nuisance for the Sandinistas. Suspecting growing separatist sentiments among them, Sandinista forces last year arrested 33 Indian leaders, and shortly thereafter four government soldiers and four Miskitos were killed during a Shootout at a Moravian church in Prinzapolka. One of those arrested was Steadman Fagoth Miiller, 27, a militant young Miskito leader feared by the Sandinistas...
...nucleus" of Red Brigades "had captured and placed in a people's prison the Yankee pig of the American occupying forces." The six-page typed text also solicited international support for West Germany's terrorist Red Army Faction, the Irish Republican Army and Spain's violently separatist Basque...
...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...