Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Gorbachev's accession to power, doctrinaire communism went into a six- year tailspin. But the turmoil of recent months has given the cause fresh life. Many of the party's new vanguard deny they want to turn back the clock, and yet the Kremlin has begun targeting for investigation prominent private businessman Artyom Tarasov, a self-made Moscow tycoon...
...level accusations of murder at the CSA, Mr. Gonsalves, you should know that a sizeable majority of the active members of the CSA did not support this idiocy. People in the Catholic hierarchy may be behind the times, but many of the Church's members are in the vanguard, and we are fighting as hard as we can to stop people and policies (connected with our religion or not) from continuing their lying and their hatred. Virginia C. Ravenscroft '92 Member, CSA and BGLSA
...sneer at the demonstrators who say "Troops Home Now," those "realists" who know so much better--have already ignored what I have had to say about this in the past. Long before the phrase "New World Order" had once again become common coin, I picked it out as the vanguard of post-modern imperialism, a foreign policy that would be profoundly undemocratic--the Bush Doctrine. So much for political analysis...
Most Palestinian children, on the other hand, have been inured to violence through Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the three- year-old intifadeh. Arab youngsters have been in the vanguard of the uprising, burning tires, hurling stones -- and dying violently. They see little to fear from the Scud attacks. If they are hit, it will be by accident. And whether they die by Israeli guns or Saddam's missiles, they will still be martyrs to the Palestinian cause. Says Zobaida Abu-Humos, Shirin's older cousin: "I've seen so many Palestinians...
...officials fear that the returning Kuwaitis might slaughter every Palestinian in sight. Many of the exiles believe that Palestinians living in the emirate collaborated with the Iraqi army and revealed information about important Kuwaitis to the invading forces. Pentagon officials prefer to place Saudi troops, instead, in the vanguard of any assault. Once the area is stabilized, the exiles will be allowed a triumphant march into Kuwait City...