Word: separatists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...although the country is officially bilingual the federal government operates in Eng lish only, that French Canadians are discriminated against in the civil service, and in a thousand other ways. The disaffection has been growing, until today a considerable number of French Canadians want out of Canada alto gether. Separatist groups are clamoring for secession, to the point where a legislative committee is now studying what this would mean to Quebec. Then there are the extremists, who call themselves the Quebec Liberation Army, and have been planting bombs in mailboxes, dynamiting army installations and looting armories. In the matter...
...white community and be white," Malcolm said. But, while denying the possibility of integration, Moslem Mosque, Inc., will participate this summer in civil-rights demonstrations in the South. Whether the new self-defense tactics will cause bloodshed is a question which troubles whites. But the role of a separatist group in the integration movement, and in this country is the question as yet unresolved by Malcolm...
...government, was no more sanguine about Moslem Mosque Inc. than Wilson. Acknowledging that black nationalism is a legitimate part of American politics. "In fact as vile and mundane as proposals used by white immigrants," Kilson was pessi- mistic about the possibility of fashioning a better state by a separatist movement. The lack of social structure in urban Negro populations makes it almost impossible. Kilron said, to organize effectively outside the system...
Equally shrill is the Nationalist Independence Rally, once headed by Marcel Chaput, 45, a former government biochemist. Several months ago, Chaput embarked on a 34-day Gandhi-like fast and raised $100,000 for the separatist movement that he confidently predicts will win out before Canada reaches its centennial of Confederation in 1967. Last week Dr. Chaput drew angry cries of treason after he issued a warning to Queen Elizabeth, who plans to visit Canada next October. "Some of my people," he said, "are ready to let her know-and brutally-that she is no longer welcome in French Canada...
...General Wayne's disciplined infantry routed a large Indian army. The pursuing Americans saw the gates of the British fort close in the face of the fleeing Indians. Indian trust of their British allies disappeared in smoking rage, and their attacks ceased. The national government had proved itself. Separatist sentiments evaporated. Less than a decade later, Napoleon sold the U.S. a Louisiana Territory he couldn't have held. The flatboat and Fallen Timbers had made it clear who owned America...