Word: separatist
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...with confidence in his own dignity as a black man. But as he became aware of the need for a real strategy for grasping political power, he grew away from the Muslims and became a liability to Elijah Muhammed, who had no intention of actually carrying out his separatist dogma. Malcolm left the Muslims in March of 1964, after being suspended by Muhammed in December of 1963, supposedly for a remark he made about President Kennedy's assassination...
...Mozambique (220,000 whites, 60,000 Asians, 8 million blacks) could have trouble. It has close economic links with South Africa, where apartheid supporters might try to foment a separatist movement among Mozambique's whites. Still, the transition will be greatly eased by the fact that there is only one liberation group, Frelimo, which enjoys recognition in Lisbon as the voice of most Mozambicans...
...over a variety of campus operations. The repercussions of this cultural behavior are national in scope and are manifest on the undergraduate and graduate levels. He concludes that the future quality of the black elites and professionals are at stake. The situation can be rectified by breaking down these separatist restraints, with blacks interacting more fully with their non-black peers as well as inculcating achievement-oriented behavior...
...real political power in New York City, they must work through the regular Democratic organization. By cooperating with the other groups within the broad-based Democratic coalition, blacks and Puerto Ricans will be assured of "getting a piece of the pie." By indulging in an ethnic separatist political style, blacks and Puerto Ricans face the prospect of constantly losing elections until they become a majority of the city's population. Right now, the city's electorate is over 65 per cent white and it will be at least 15 years before minority groups become dominant in the city electorate...
...Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Many government officials were given round-the-clock protection by police or soldiers, and some wealthy families spent sizable sums to hire private guards. Police were empowered to hold suspected terrorists without formal charges for 21 days. Hundreds of Quebeckers - most of them French-speaking separatists, but not terrorists - were arrested in nighttime raids. Canadians endured a state of near-martial law for two months, and polls showed that a large majority approved Trudeau's tough stand, at least at the outset. The terrorist killings - and the government's countermoves - mortally wounded the Quebec...