Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match the scale of their weapons orders ?almost a tenfold increase on their 8,000 regulars. Inevitably, the volunteers included unemployed youths and street-corner thugs who planned to serve most of their hitch looting towns and shaking down civilians. They also included a share of vengeful Northern tribalists eager to settle old scores with the Ibo tribe. The songs they chanted marching off to war dealt not with Nigerian unity but with finishing off the Ibos...
...Sweepers. As the war progressed, the chants turned into terrible reality. In captured village after village, frontline troops were followed by ragtag "sweepers" from Northern Nigeria. They nailed Ibo tribesmen to the walls of their wooden huts, then sprayed them with automatic-rifle fire or set torches to their clothes. "Mop-up" soldiers raped women, sometimes lined up whole villages to be shot. The Ibos concluded that the Hausa tribesmen fully intended to use the war to systematically exterminate them. This fear, more than anything else, has hardened the Biafran determination to fight on to the end. "We shall...
...market that will enable each country to draw on the other's investment capital, labor pool and special industrial talents. There were some signs, most notably new attacks in the Soviet press against Dubcek's programs and the resumption of Warsaw Pact maneuvers along Czechoslovakia's northern border, that the Soviets had started a fresh buildup of pressure. But as a successful host, Dubcek was recruiting the sort of support from his sympathetic guests that might make it more difficult than ever for the Soviets to use the threat of force to bring the liberals in Prague...
...situation in many parts of the U.S. is worse now than it was a couple of generations ago. In those days, says Chicago's Dr. Arthur G. Falls, 67, there was no discrimination in Northern schools. "I was born and raised in Chicago, and got a fine education in the public school system. I had no trouble getting into Northwestern and going on through its medical school. The decline of the Chicago public school system came later. Today, many Negroes wishing to go to medical school are ill prepared educationally. Even to be considered, the Negro must...
Paid to Go Away. Even the most liberal Northern and Western schools have far fewer than the 11% black students that would match the proportion of Negroes in the population. Many have had "quota" systems for Negroes and also Jews. Most Southern med schools accept only token admissions to stay within the law governing federal support funds. Thus the vast majority of the nation's Negro doctors have been trained in two century-old medical schools created especially for them: Howard University's in Washington, and Meharry in Nashville...