Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canadian political life. The new Parliament is more regionally Balkanized than at any other time in the country's 130-year history. The Reform Party nearly swept the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia but failed to pick up a single seat east of the Prairies. In Quebec the separatist Bloc Quebecois took a majority of the 75 seats in its home province. And even Chretien's Liberals depended for two-thirds of its majority on a single province, Ontario. The new fault lines could not come at a worse time. Quebec separatist leaders have sworn to hold a referendum...
Recreational pot, hashish, uppers, downers and hallucinogens were part of campus reality. Not everyone drugged but most drank something and cigarette smoking was an acceptable social activity. Adult-like sex was now quite available as well and there was much discussion about "free love," communal living, black separatist states and even revisiting the "back to Africa" vision of Paul Cuffe and Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I seemed to focus on being sure that I was making my own and not peer-pressured decisions about who I wanted...
...ready-made Liberal solution to such nagging problems as Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number two government heckler slot, further muddying the chances for a national referendum on Qu?bec independence. The Liberals now face a House of Commons sharply divided along regional lines, with two smaller opposition parties, the right-wing Progressive Conservatives...
Third on the CIA's worry list is the possible "involvement of local, nuclear-armed units in separatist movements." The question here is what might have happened if the leaders of Chechnya's rebellion had had access to some nuclear weapons during the time the Russian army was pounding Grozny into rubble...
...away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely the pretense of extraterritoriality, Rick McLaren, self-declared "ambassador, consul-general and chief foreign legal officer" of the separatist Republic of Texas, ended his 6 1/2-day standoff against America, laid down 10 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and agreed to a cease-fire. In a nod to protocol, the plenipotentiaries who negotiated the agreement--otherwise known as the Texas Rangers--watched as the separatists ceremonially arranged their...