Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broederbond's most zealous racists, Daniel Malan, founded the present-day National Party in 1934 and finally achieved the Afrikaners' revenge in the election of 1948. He defeated Smuts and the British influence under a new slogan: apartheid. It was not really new, of course. The South Africa Act of 1909, passed by the British Parliament, had barred blacks from sitting in the legislature. The Natives Land Acts of 1913 had established a few black "reserves" and claimed the remaining 85% of the nation for whites. Interracial sex was proscribed as far back...
...effort to end the speculation that had begun creeping into the market, homeowners are now allowed to sell only to the government -- at its price. "The glories of the revolution are not based on money," Castro told the Third Party Congress in February 1986. Cuba's new slogan, Castro said, would be "Now we are going to build socialism...
...deal because it would make the world safer. Says one mid-level Soviet official: "He doesn't play by the old rules. The whole strategy of arms negotiations is changing; bargaining chips don't work anymore. Gorbachev really thinks in a new way, and that is not just a slogan." Something like this view is echoed by a less biased observer: George Shultz. Talking to reporters in California about Gorbachev's latest offer, the Secretary mused, "Why are the Soviets doing this? I don't know. They say they want a less threatening and less nuclear world, and maybe...
...zero option has had a bizarre, irony-ridden career. Born as a slogan of the European left in the late 1970s, kidnaped and turned to their purposes by Reaganaut hard-liners in 1981, now adopted and turned to his own use by Mikhail Gorbachev, it may come to maturity at a summit later this year as the first arms-control agreement in nearly a decade -- but also as the object of intense opposition...
...Reagan Administration considers the Soviet leader' s proposal for eliminating nuclear missiles from Europe. -- How the zero option grew from a leftist slogan to the main plank of an arms- control agreement. -- Gary Hart, lone political warrior, officially enters the 1988 race. -- Florida prepares for new taxes, while a Texas town, tired of fighting city hall, eliminates...