Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Southern Negroes even contend that whites in certain Black Belt counties are consciously plotting to starve Negroes into Northern exile...
...bloodletting. Last week it began. "War, as everybody knows, is a necessary evil," proclaimed a Nigerian government newspaper, the Morning Post, in its "Teachings of Islam" column. Thus, with resignation, federal government forces led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, 32, rolled out of the lush green hills of the Northern region to attack Nigeria's secessionist Eastern region, which now calls itself Biafra. Gowon's aim: "A short, surgical police action" to crush the rebellion led by Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu...
...every one of their Ibo tribesmen slaughtered last year in riots in the predominantly Moslem North. It was the massacres of thou sands of Ibos that convinced Ojukwu that his state (pop. 12 million) cannot hope to live safely within a strong federal union led by Gowon and Northern officers...
Like New Jersey, Chile has dense fogs, which move in from the Pacific nearly every evening. Even so, some of the country's northern areas are among the most arid in the world, receiving practically no rainfall despite their moisture-laden atmosphere. Observing that the fog collected into drops on nylon lines, scientists at the Northern University of Chile in Antofagasta constructed wood and metal frames strung with vertical strands of nylon and set them up on nearby hills. As the fog was blown through the frames by the evening wind, it formed water droplets on the strands that...
...largely northern liberal audience responded warmly to the largely liberal southernor. A member of the audience requested Allen if he could not be persuaded to run for mayor of Boston...