Word: separatist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next battleground. The Communists have already set up a radio station that broadcasts propaganda to Thailand and they have infiltrated several northern provinces. Withdrawal will thus simply change the battlefield. Most of Thailand is loyal and committed to freedom in the Western sense; but one province has always been separatist and will provide the basis for an attack which the Thai people do not want. But it does no good to prolong the agony in Vietnam if we do nothing to strengthen Thailand...
...approached Quebec last week, ominous letters and telephone calls poured into newspapers. Police seized 14,000 "hate" pamphlets ("First-class funeral for Confederation-the Queen's visit"). And in downtown Quebec City the night before her arrival 1,000 members of the separatist Le Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale staged a silent protest march until police broke it up. "This is an example of the democracy we live in," snarled Separatist Leader Pierre Bourgault. Officials were haunted by thoughts of the assassination of President Kennedy...
...Montreal separatist organization operates more or less openly, with an estimated membership of 7,000. Small, shadowy bands of fanatics have bombed army installations, destroyed mailboxes and raided armories, stealing rifles, sub machine guns, antitank bazookas and any other weapons they could cart away. Fortnight ago, five terrorists looted a firearms store in Montreal and killed an employee before police swooped down to capture them...
...although the country is officially bilingual the federal government operates in Eng lish only, that French Canadians are discriminated against in the civil service, and in a thousand other ways. The disaffection has been growing, until today a considerable number of French Canadians want out of Canada alto gether. Separatist groups are clamoring for secession, to the point where a legislative committee is now studying what this would mean to Quebec. Then there are the extremists, who call themselves the Quebec Liberation Army, and have been planting bombs in mailboxes, dynamiting army installations and looting armories. In the matter...
...white community and be white," Malcolm said. But, while denying the possibility of integration, Moslem Mosque, Inc., will participate this summer in civil-rights demonstrations in the South. Whether the new self-defense tactics will cause bloodshed is a question which troubles whites. But the role of a separatist group in the integration movement, and in this country is the question as yet unresolved by Malcolm...