Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puerto Rico would resemble Quebec in other ways. There would always be a separatist party. There was one before the current fashion of civil war and balkanization, and there will be one afterwards. Its members are the unreconstructed heirs of the tradition of nationalist politics, the victims of American racism, all those who reject the American way of life. Some of them will always be furious enough to shoot up the House of Representatives or blow up a Wall Street restaurant. The world cannot be run by fear of fanatics, but neither can a nation be constituted through wishful thinking...
...claims we have reached androgeneity yet, and her argument ignores the possibility of change. "This is not the place, nor am I the person," she says, "to draw blueprints for the assimilation of men in large numbers into childcare." We are left with no choice but a separatist future--a vision that precludes children born according to the rather well-established biological pattern, although it does get rid of the motherhood problem...
...vesque, 54. Once a firebrand Cabinet minister in the federalist Liberal government of Quebec, he was even considered by some-in much earlier days -as a possible candidate for Prime Minister of Canada. Now the voluble, hyperactive Levesque says that anyone who does not believe his separatist Parti Quebecois is determined to seek national independence is "daydreaming...
...year later he founded the Parti Québécois. Lévesque's moderate approach to separatism through the ballot box managed to survive Canadian revulsion during the October Crisis of 1970, when separatist terrorists kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered the province's Labor Minister, Pierre Laporte...
...representatives that they would close the door to some Japanese goods unless the country moves swiftly to reduce its mammoth $4.2 billion annual surplus in trade with Europe. Discontent over inflation and unemployment is shaking governments in Britain and Italy, fomenting rising left-wing sentiment in France, and rekindling separatist dreams in Canada...