Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always been highly regarded and widely practiced. For centuries, native praus flashed out from inlets and rivers to send kris-waving pirates swarming aboard European merchantmen richly laden with the wealth of the Spice Islands. The conquering Dutch were never able to thoroughly subdue Atjeh, on the northern tip of Sumatra. In 1906 a Balinese rajah, his sons, wives, concubines and soldiers committed mass suicide rather than surrender...
...theocratic Moslem state by force of arms, took over most of the mountainous area southwest of Bandung in Java; a separatist republic was established in the South Moluccas; the Amboinese, who had long supplied native soldiers to the Dutch, rose in rebellion; the people of Atjeh in Northern Sumatra, who fight everybody, fought the government...
ARTURO FRONDIZI is the 13th of 14 children born to a road and bridge contractor who moved to Argentina in the great migration from Italy in the 1890s. Born in the northern province of Corrientes, he reached the University of Buenos Aires in time to choose between the fashionable political trends of Argentina in the late '20s: the right-wing nationalists led by the Prussianized army, and the University leftists. Frondizi turned left, went in for Marx and Kropot-kin-but pulled up short of becoming a socialist or Communist. Instead, he breezed through law school in three years...
Even if Bourguiba wanted to, it would be physically impossible for Tunisia to seal off its 600-mile border with Algeria. The southern 300 miles of the frontier run through forbidding desert; its northern reaches run through impenetrable woods broken by scrubby hills and low, rocky mountains. So rough is this terrain that even the French have made no serious effort to fortify the frontier itself. Instead, the French army has built the "Morice line," a 150-mile electrified barbed-wire fence along the Bône-Tebessa Railway (see map), which at some points lies as much...
...Needing far more producers and consumers than its natural increase could provide-and needing also to make up for the 35,000 Canadians who head for the U.S. each year-Canada in the last twelve years has welcomed 1,669,340 foreign-born settlers, most of them from Britain, northern Europe and Italy. Of Canada's 17 million people today, almost 3,000,000 were born in a foreign land; British-descended Canadians, once a dominant majority, now constitute only 48% of their nation's population...