Word: ethnically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...1960s, however, the idea began to take firm hold. Part of this was due to Charles de Gaulle's fiery brand of French nationalism, which he recommended to Quebeckers during a memorable visit in 1967. Partly it was due to nationalistic and ethnic stirrings being felt round the world...
Flung together in confining cities, the various Transjordanian ethnic groups are intermingling, and substituting political allegiance for tribal or ethnic ones. In a country where no formal political parties are allowed to function, the urban Jordanian turns increasingly to the fedayeen, mostly because of the guerrillas' commitment to defeating Israel but also because they are attracted by the emerging social cohesion of the Palestinians...
...station. Fong's popularity is somewhat of a mystery in a state which gave 80 per cent of its votes in the last Senate election to one of the most liberal members of the Senate, Daniel K. Inouye. But Fong, who is Chinese, has a large ethnic backing and lots of money. To say that Heftel has an uphill battle is being kind to the Democrats...
...leadership with a maximum of panoply and publicity. For no compelling diplomatic reasons, Nixon will stop in Rome to see Italian President Giuseppe Saragat and Pope Paul, and will later visit Ireland. He and Pat, after all, are of Irish blood. That makes two out of the three traditional ethnic I's-Italy, Ireland and Israel-that many traveling American politicians like to cultivate as election days approach. If it were not so diplomatically complicated, he might have liked to drop in on Israel as well...
Last week, after 95 years, the Chinatown detail, already reduced to only six men, was dissolved. Some leaders of the law-abiding Chinese community felt that the detail represented a subtle discrimination. No other ethnic neighborhood has a special police force. Police Chief Alfred Nelder said: "The time has come when they should be more identifiable in a uniform." But one of the Chinatown detail men who put on the blues for the first time had another viewpoint: "It was a lot easier to be friends without the uniform...