Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hassan Nazih, head of the National Iranian Oil Co., decried the regime's tendency to "put all political, economic and judicial problems into an Islamic mold." In the port city of Khorramshahr and in Abadan, site of the world's biggest oil refinery, fighting broke out between ethnic Arabs, who want more autonomy from Tehran, and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's armed forces; at least 25 people were killed in running gun battles. Because he suffered from exhaustion, the state radio announced, Khomeini would take a week's vacation, his second week of rest in a month...
Tarver said that because he is black, he could bring to the post "a responsibility and sensitivity to the school's consideration of trying to provide opportunities for various ethnic minorities to participate in the future of the school...
...Minister Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia in 1965; a grateful British government promptly awarded Gumede an M.B.E. Bishop Muzorewa has been accused of playing favorites by appointing too many of his fellow Shona tribesmen to office; since Gumede is a Matabele, the second largest ethnic grouping in the country after the Shonas, his nomination as chief of state made good political sense...
...Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, secretly, in late 1968. His book, however, is virtually devoid of contemporary sinological research, not to mention eyewitness reporting. Louis draws on czarist-era studies to proclaim that nationalism is flourishing even in Manchuria, though the Manchus have virtually vanished as an identifiable ethnic group, largely because of overwhelming Han Chinese immigration for a century. At one point Louis admits this; at another point he claims, preposterously, that the issue of Manchu nationhood is being debated "heatedly" by scholars. He even concocts a bizarre drama in which the Tibetan Dalai Lama takes up residence...
Understandably enough, Louis makes no mention of Moscow's difficulties with its own ethnic minorities, which constitute 53% of the Soviet Union's population, as compared with a total 6% minority population in China. Yet it was a revolt of the Soviets' restive minorities that provided a central drama a decade ago in the prophecy by Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? After serving a term of exile in Siberia, Amalrik was allowed to emigrate to the West...