Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelfth anniversary of the death of Mossadegh, the nationalist Prime Minister who forced the Shah to briefly flee Iran before being toppled by a CIA-assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally outside the brown brick house where Mossadegh is buried, his grandson-in-law, Dr. Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities...
...member Assembly that will have 72 black and 28 white members. Though Smith will run for a seat and hopes for a Cabinet post, the next Prime Minister of Zimbabwe/Rhodesia, as the country is to be known, will almost certainly be Muzorewa, who leads the largest of the black nationalist parties. Even so, only South Africa has agreed to recognize the majority regime after the April vote. Neither the U.S. nor Britain is likely to support the new entity...
Ironically, the war has expanded since the internal settlement was signed in March 1978. At that time Smith's black nationalist colleagues promised that it would end within weeks. Military and civilian casualties have mounted from 13 a day then to nearly 50 a day now. Last week, for the first time, a park area in Salisbury itself was under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. In the eastern highlands on the Mozambique border, fleeing white farmers have abandoned some 160,000 acres of farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend...
...speaker was from the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), and he knew how to play to an audience. He soon had the Americans firmly committed to the cause of Scottish independence. Dressed in a kilt with all the trappings, the text of his speech was primarily the American Declaration of Independence. He compared the Act of Union, which joined Scotland and England in 1707, to America's hated Stamp Tax, and he likened SNP leaders William Wolfe and Margo MacDonald to Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. The analogy was undeniably forced, but Bicentennial fever had struck the Americans already, and they...
DIED. Mustafa Barzani, 75, Kurdish nationalist leader who waged guerrilla war for 40 years in a futile attempt to win a homeland in northeastern Iraq for his people; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Wishing to establish an autonomous Kurdistan for his 12 million Muslim tribesmen scattered throughout Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, Barzani led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Iraqi government in the mid-1930s. Fleeing to Moscow, where he spent twelve years in exile, he returned to his native land in 1958 to reorganize his guerrilla army, the Pesh Merga (Forward to Death). After...