Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within 72 hours. Under Premier David Ben-Gurion, the nation decided that its security was best assured by armored units and paratroops capable of striking deep into enemy territory. The army is thus divided into three regional commands, and some of its officers believe that the northern command alone could sweep to Damascus in three days...
With full military honors, Major General Aguiyi Ironsi was buried last week -for the third time. Though it had never been confirmed by the government, everyone in Nigeria knew that Ironsi, an Ibo tribesman and an Easterner, was shot to death six months ago by Northern army officers who toppled him in a coup. Ironsi's executioners first buried him in a shallow roadside grave, and then in a cemetery in the Western city of Ibadan. The decision to exhume Ironsi's remains and fly them East for burial in his home town of Imuahia Ibeku...
Today she was expecting also the Peace Corps Director and a Northern-Mediterranean representative to the United Nations. (Those New Yorkers who refused to speak to Honey-Lou--originally a "simple" New Mexican--spoke nonetheless scandalously of her hospitality to attractive middle-aged...
Nigeria's present crisis is rooted in tribal tensions which have been maturing for decades. The most violent antagonism is between the progressive Ibos, who dominate Nigeria's Eastern Region, and the less-educated Hausas, a Moslem people from the vast and largely arid Northern Region. After World War II, the Ibos, whose Eastern home is badly overpopulated, migrated north in droves to take advantage of the opportunities offered by their underdeveloped and underpopulated neighbor. The Ibos soon dominated major northern industries and captured crucial transportation and communications jobs. The Hausas, frustrated by their inability to complete with the "foreigners...
Nigeria's Northern and Western Regions consider a loose confederation and Ibo secession equally unattractive. The East has just discovered large deposits of oil, and its neighbors want to make sure that they share in the benefits. The North declared that if the East tried to pull out of the federation, it would use force to bring the rebels back. The Ibos responded by arming...