Word: separatist
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...into the streets of Noumea, where they hurled rocks and bottles at police. Tensions increased the next day when at least 100 gendarmes surrounded a farmhouse near La Foa, 55 miles northwest of the capital. There, Eloi Machoro, a leader of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, a militant Separatist party, and 50 of his followers were gathered. In a dawn raid, Machoro and one of his aides, Marcel Nornaro, were killed. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the president of a provisional Kanak government formed last month by the Liberation Front, charged that Machoro had been "assassinated" with Pisani's blessing...
...Paris, 2,000 separatist sympathizers marched outside Premier Laurent Fabius' office, chanting "Mitterrand killer!" Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris and leader of the rightist Rally for the Republic party, called for the suspension of the Pisani plan. Mitterrand, however, remained firmly committed to the proposal...
...less the nature of his achievements than the style and spirit of his leadership. While courages and revolutionary, King's activism was a healing one. He called on all Americans to rally to the struggle for civil rights and simultaneously rejected, at a not insubstantial cost, pressures from more separatist elements of the Black community...
...chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that France has suffered for a long time." Mitterrand has been hurt as well by public concern over the still simmering separatist revolt in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
...disparity between the West's largesse and the continuing food shortages is the result both of the long delivery time of grain shipped by sea and of Ethiopia's political divisions. The Eritrean Relief Association, an organization associated with separatist rebels in the country's northern province, has reportedly accused Ethiopia's Communist government of interfering with efforts to supply food to the region. In Tigre province, another rebel faction has been accused of preventing hungry people from going to government relief centers in the south...