Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recent events have also given a boost to the tactics of conservatives. The separatist tone of much of the "black power" talk, as well as statements by Stokely Carmichael that the open housing section of the civil rights bill is "useless" may lead many white independents to conclude that Negroes really don't want total integration -- and may reinforce the instinctive opposition of whites to what they consider "forced housing" laws. And as the escalation of the air war in North Vietnam forces the President to agonize over hair-splitting strategic moves -- like whether or not to bomb power plants...
...Separatist Sikhs. The flame was lit fortnight ago when the powerful Working Committee of the Congress Party caved in to the demands of India's 7,000,000 Sikhs for the creation...
...Cameroun, President Ahmadou Ahidjo is up against a powerful separatist movement. Burundi's last two Prime Ministers have been assassinated, and a police coup was barely avoided last October. Rumors of an impending military coup grew so strong in Uganda last month that Prime Minister Milton Obote's entire Cabinet went into hiding for two days. Obote himself suspended the constitution, closed Parliament, seized all power and fired the army commander...
...discussion about the Quebec separatist movement failed to get off the ground because Harvard students knew so little about the issue, the article complained...
Last year Brown was deluged by criticism when he spoke out on behalf of the Black Muslims ("the more commotion the better")-although he does not share their separatist beliefs. Cleveland Sportscaster John Fitzgerald advised him on the air to pipe down and stick to football. Later, buttonholing Brown in the Cleveland dressing room, he explained to him: "I've always admired you as a football player, Jim. I've never looked on you as a Negro." "That's ridiculous!" Brown snapped. "You have to look at me as a Negro. Look...