Word: cessions
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Liberal Sen. Albert Gore, the main target of the Republican "Southern strategy," went down to defeat in a fairly close race in Tennessee. In his con-cession speech last night, Gore promised that "the truth shall rise again." His opponent, conservative William Brock III, was one of the largest benefactors of Republican financial aid; Gore has served in the House and Senate for 32 years...
...Essentially Evil." Under a stringent new Law and Order Maintenance Act that makes even the possession of terrorist weapons a capital offense, the number of Africans awaiting execution in Rhodesia has risen to 115 since se cession (v. only twelve before). Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime, unsure of its authority and fearful of casting itself in the role of judicial murderer, had refrained from carrying out the sentences. Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia's high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister...
Otherwise, it is difficult to envisage any serious threat to India's integrity. Broadly speaking, the centripetal forces in India are much stronger than the centrifugal forces and it must be noticed that the D.M.K. succeeded in winning in Madras only after it had given up its demand of cession from India...
...ironies did not end with cession. Russia was kept waiting 15 months for its money while the U.S. House of Representatives-informed by the Foreign Affairs Committee that Alaska's bountiful resources were worthless and the land itself "unfit for civilized men"-overcame its feeling that the price was excessive. Instead of the full rights of citizenship promised by the U.S., the Russians in Alaska got military occupation by U.S. troops, who looted their churches and raped their women. For the next 17 years, Alaska was operated as a U.S. customs district, without government or laws. By then...
...when the Manchu Emperor seized 20,000 chests of smuggled British opium, it was William Jardine who convinced British Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston that this was an indignity to which Britain could not submit. The result was the three-year Opium War, which ended in 1842 with permanent Chinese cession of Hong Kong to Britain...