Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nigeria into self-governing regions, one of which, the North, contained a majority of the population and more than half the area of the country. Since this region was also an oriental despotism and a one-party state, it was clear that a single band of scheming dynasts, the Northern People's Congress, could command at will a working majority in the Federal Parliament and dictate the terms of government to less ancient cliques in other regions...
...Prime Minister, the number two man in the Northern People's Congress, shrewdly refused to comment on this article. But his boss, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Premier of the North, and President of the Northern People's Congress, denounced the President and proclaimed (not for the first time), "Sooner or later we shall have a showdown...
...radios crackled back on the air, their broadcasts were filled with conflicting reports that changed from hour to hour. According to one, a single unnamed army general from the North had launched a coup "to bring an end to gangsterism and disorder." The premiers of both the Northern and Western regions were reported assassinated, and Sir Abubakar was said to be under house arrest...
...that house one-quarter of Rio's 4,000,000 inhabitants. Many of the favelas cling precariously to steep hills. As the rains loosened the soil, the shacks slid dizzily down. Many favela dwellers escaped; others failed to get out soon enough. Slum dwellers in the low-lying northern suburb fared little better: the entire area was flooded...
With Traynor heartily concurring, in 1963 Chief Justice Gibson took California far beyond the Supreme Court's current doctrine that Northern school boards may or may not remedy de facto segregation, as they please. In a still unique state-court reading of the 14th Amendment, Gibson ruled in Jackson v. Pasadena that California school boards can no longer merely refrain from discrimination. "It is up to the school boards," he said, "to eliminate racial imbalance in schools regardless of its cause." In 1963 Traynor spoke for his court in issuing another U.S. precedent: the idea that even non-negligent...