Word: northern
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...order issue. But, as he sees it, this approach is eminently usable outside the South as well, in view of the nation's current concern over crime and violence. Actually, there has been something of a depolarization over the racial issue, at least among many Northern and Southern whites. The Southerners have tended to become less conservative, the Northerners less liberal. Further, middle-road Republicans like Nixon discovered big, centralized government as a target long before Wallace arose as a threat and Southern Republicanism as a lure. It is still an attractive mark to those in all regions...
...descended on the sabon garris (strangers' quarters), the home in almost every Northern city of job-hunting Ibo settlers, slaughtering as they went. The Northerners used everything from shotguns to poison arrows in their slaughter of the Ibos, and they roamed the length and breadth of cities to take them...
Furious Bursts. Ojukwu's antagonist is a dapper, 33-year-old son of a Methodist missionary. Yakubu Gowon, the commander of the federal forces, had no ambitions beyond serving as a competent staff officer of the Nigerian army until two years ago, when leaders of the Northern countercoup settled on him as head of state. Gowon was, at that point, the North's way of appeasing the South: besides practicing Christianity, he belonged to one of the smallest Northern tribes. Trained at Britain's Sandhurst military school, Gowon once shared barrack quarters with Ojukwu, but has neither his intellect...
Attaching Agnew's name to these requirements shocked many, because they knew virtually nothing about the man beyond the fact that he was a very new, moderately successful Governor with no national or international stature (see following story). Many Northern Republicans were rankled by the ready acceptance of the selection by Southerners and by conservatives generally. Although Agnew is a moderate by Maryland standards and a liberal by Deep South criteria, there was the suspicion that he was on the ticket to placate Thurmond and other segregationists. Not only liberals protested. Colorado Senator Peter Dominick howled: "There...
...noted, "the two children and their mother would be the only Jews. There are but two temples in the state, the nearer one being almost 300 miles away. Of Idaho's population (692,000), only 500, or .07%, are Jews." The father, on the other hand, lives in northern New Jersey, where "temples, Hebrew schools and extrareligious facilities abound." Citing C. Bezalel Sherman's The Jew Within American Society, Judge Consodine, himself a Catholic, decided that the children's Idaho environment might well undermine their faith...