Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary danger from this heightened level of politics is that, as the country as a whole begins to make political demands, so will each of South Vietnam's many ethnic, religious, and communal factions...
Known as the "Mission Rebels in Action," the new James boys are currently 600 strong and reflect the district's ethnic mixture of Negroes, Filipinos, Samoans, Maltese, Indians and Spanish Americans. Before Jesse came on the scene, most of the whilom rebels were headed for the standard non-careers of the neighborhood-petty crime, gang fights or debilitating welfare living...
...readily identify as the same kind of liberal who has been much in evidence for the past seven years. Moreover the war in Asia is likely to go on many more years, although possibly in different forms. And most importantly, the violence in our cities, tensions between racial and ethnic groups, is just as likely to go on, and if anything get worse. (As indeed the war could get worse.) What, as someone once said, is to be done...
Another factor seems to account for the federal deficiency. Nigeria's Oxford-educated elite made the tribal group their power base, appealing to ethnic sentiments rather than issues. Surely, they eased their own way to power; but Nigeria paid dearly. Tribal divisions were institutionalized in government. Leaders found their maneuverability fatally limited. Thus, Gowon, as a northern general, owed his office to Hausa support. He heeded their opposition to the confederate plan, even though his stand jeopardized an equitable sentiment...
...University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes a "flypaper memory" to Scammon, says, "he's always startling you by coming up with the vote in some borough in England in 1872." His mastery of U.S. statistics is even more phenomenal. Scammon can recite from memory the political, social, economic and ethnic characteristics of hundreds of congressional districts throughout the nation...