Word: separatist
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...defeat a proposed ban on the teaching of evolution. Said Ervin at the time: "The monkeys in the jungle will be pleased to know that the North Carolina legislature has absolved them from any responsibility for humanity." Despite his own robust Presbyterianism, he was an absolute church- and-state separatist...
Aside from the potential for Soviet agents to stir separatist sentiments in the Pakistan provinces of Baluchistan and Sind, the area of greatest danger is the North-West Frontier province, where 30,000 troops of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps form a thin defense line. For the moment, the prospect seems to be intensified bombing and occasional hot pursuit, though probably no major Soviet incursion into Pakistan. Says a Western diplomat based in Pakistan: "The Soviets will take every opportunity they can find --and there are many--for subversive operations. It has become a very dirty and deadly game...
Virtually every night since then, small groups of guerrillas have stolen across the waters to prepare for a showdown battle with the Sri Lankan army. Last week the war all but broke out. First the rebels, who represent the island's 2.6 million mostly Hindu Tamils in a separatist struggle against 11 million mainly Buddhist Sinhalese, killed three civilians whom they suspected of being government informers. Then they planted a bomb that ripped apart sections of a train in the capital, Colombo. Finally, hundreds of the so- called Tamil Tigers cut off electricity in the northern city of Jaffna, blasted...
...building. At least 18 people died and 82 were injured. The blast may have been a terrorist attack aimed at U.S. military personnel who regularly eat at the restaurant. No Americans were killed, but eleven were injured. Two newspapers later received telephone calls claiming that ETA, the Basque separatist group, was responsible. Calls to Madrid radio stations claimed that an urban terrorist group called GRAPO had bombed the restaurant. Although officials said there was no evidence that these groups were involved, they said they were "working on the theory that it could be a terrorist bomb...
...February 25], refers to Black students who engage in certain cultural and political activities as "parochial" and "ethnocentric." He intimates that Black students, specifically those who are members of such group, as the Black Students Association, the Kuumba Singers, and the Third World Alliance, are narrow-minded. The dimensional, separatist and even racist...