Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomson decided to become a farmer in Saskatchewan, but the bleak and lonely life sent him scurrying back east. "Goddam, what a fool I am," he berated himself. He turned to selling radios in desolate northern Ontario, then discovered that people heard only static. So he built his own radio station. When the Timmons, Ont., Citizen pressured him to drop a certain news program, Thomson angrily bought out the paper for $6,000. Inadvertently, he had started his publishing empire...
Thin on Research? Thus, the blackout may have proved a timely warning. "Think what one Russian with a pair of pliers could do," mused Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co. Chairman C. Spencer Clark. To others, it was a reminder that bigger systems may invite bigger blackouts, unless they are made more reliable. The suspicion among many was that the utilities, in their increasing reliance on pools to meet the ever-rising U.S. demand for power?it has doubled in every recent decade?have cut themselves thin on research and development that might have prevented last week's debacle...
Every time Nigerians go to the polls, the basic issue is the same: can the Moslem Northern region, with more than half the nation's official population of 55.6 million, dominate the rest of the land? The invariable answer: sort of. One way or another, ever since Nigeria gained its independence five years ago, the North has managed to hold on to the prime ministry, keep itself a sizable majority in the federal parliament and maintain its tenuous, if often disputed, control of other regions...
...demand new elections; he was arrested. Market women closed down their stalls in protest, leaving many towns short of food. Riots in one town left 35 dead. An other town was burned to the ground, and at Abeokuta, Awolowo supporters drove nails into the heads of a pro-Northern judge and his court clerk. All told, more than 70 persons were killed and hundreds injured in three weeks of post-election violence...
...Smith's Rhodesia were to fall, South Africa's strategic position would seriously worsen. In return for possibly 70,000 more whites, it would have to share its northern border with a hostile black state. Further the success of sanctions against Rhodesia would make their use against South Africa more likely...