Word: nationalist
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...difficulty governing France, as legend has it, derives from its more than 400 types of cheese, pity the Indian politician who has to rule a nation with easily as many deities. That politician, for now, is Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who will be at the mercy of the fractious and often self-serving regional parties whose votes guarantee his majority. Vajpayee was prime minister for 13 days in 1996, and this time the pundits don?t give him more than a year. Just enough time for Sonia Gandhi to build...
...history of the Jewish people. On that day, a woman in Taipei, Taiwan, was arrested and beaten to death for selling cigarettes without a license. This sparked island-wide protests that soon resulted in the brutal massacre of more than 20,000 Taiwanese at the hands of the Chinese Nationalist troops. These innocent people were murdered solely because they peacefully protested against the repressive and corrupt rule of the Chinese Nationalist government, which had taken control of Taiwan two years earlier (after World War II). In addition, the government targeted many scholars, students, lawyers, doctors and local leaders...
...under the intense pressure of a growing opposition movement. For the first forty years, the opposition had to stay underground because of the secret police's extreme vigilance. Thousands of dissidents were imprisoned or executed for voicing their belief in liberty and democracy, and for their criticism of the Nationalist government. Yet, in the ten years since the repeal of martial law, Taiwan has become a full-fledged democracy, with its first legislative elections in 1992 and its first presidential elections in 1996. The vigorous democracy seen in Taiwan today was built on the lives and dreams of Taiwanese everywhere...
...widely predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the "Enlightened Hindu Nationalist" party, will gain the most seats of any single party, but not enough to form its own government. The conglomerate of left-leaning parties called the United Front--which headed the latest government under the ambivalent auspices of the India National Congress Party, the party that has ruled the government for all but five of the past 50 years--is expected to get about half the number of seats as the BJP, or about 20 percent. Congress will garner enough seats to control an unstable, anti-BJP coalition...
...invective of prominent nationalist leader, Bal Thackeray, against Sonia Gandhi reveals BJP unease at her appeal. "I will not allow any white-skin to rule this country," Thackeray was reported as saying in a Reuters release. "This Italian woman can never become our prime minister. Have we lost our masculinity? Did we throw out the British to invite this foreigner...