Word: nationalistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really don't agree with the direction in which we're going." But the only civil rights leader he names is Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality. Before his metamorphosis to Republican conservatism during the Nixon era, Innis' main accomplishment was transforming core into a black nationalist cult so extreme it tried to rally support for Idi Amin. I could barely stop giggling...
...Yitzhak Rabin. Marchers carried torches and signs declaring "Peace will avenge his blood" as they walked amid heavy security from the site of Rabin's shooting on the steps of city hall to the hospital where he died 90 minutes later. Rabin's assassination, at the hands of a nationalist Jew opposed to his peace efforts with the Arabs, occurred on November 4, but according to the Hebrew calendar the one-year anniversary fell Wednesday. Since the assassination, the peace efforts have been strained and the chasm between Israelis who support the land-for-peace formula and those opposed...
...Yeltsin's chances of recovery, they suppressed news of his ill health long enough for the country to enter what is by Russian standards something akin to political normality. Six months ago, after all, the favorites to succeed Yeltsin were people like Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov or nationalist extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The main contenders now, Chernomyrdin and Lebed, or perhaps Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, are less menacing to Russia's post-communist ruling class...
SARAJEVO: Citing widespread abuse of rules and regulations, the international group charged with implementing the Dayton Agreement abruptly cancelled municipal elections across Bosnia Tuesday, a day before they were set to take place. U.S. diplomat Robert Frowick said that attempts by nationalist parties, particularly the Bosnian Serbs, to solidify ethnic divisions by forcing refugees to vote in particular areas, was the deciding factor in calling off the vote. Election laws say that voters can register to vote where they are now, where they lived before the war began in 1991, or where they would like to live. But giving Bosnia...
SARAJEVO: Citing widespread abuse of rules and regulations, the international group charged with implementing the Dayton Agreement abruptly cancelled municipal elections across Bosnia Tuesday, a day before they were set to take place. U.S. diplomat Robert Frowick said that attempts by nationalist parties, particularly the Bosnian Serbs, to solidify ethnic divisions by forcing refugees to vote in particular areas, was the deciding factor in calling off the vote. Election laws say that voters can register to vote where they are now, where they lived before the war began in 1991, or where they would like to live. But giving Bosnia...