Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story begins in Melbourne, Australia, some time in 1964, four months after life in the Northern Hemisphere has been wiped out by a brief atomic war, and five months before the drift of radioactivity is expected to blight the Southern Hemisphere. Outwardly at least, the survivors keep a stiff upper lip about what is going to happen. They go to work in the morning, beach in the afternoon, pub at night. Soon, the drinking begins to get a bit heavier, the sex a bit out of hand...
This year the Southeast Asian governments that Red China has been wooing began to grow nervous about Peking's brutal behavior. They were frightened by Tibet, worried by Laos, and depressed by Chinese belligerency on India's northern borders. In their fear of new Red aggression, they viewed the Overseas Chinese as a potential fifth column...
...with millions invested in Nigeria (correct: they distrust Zik). Awolowo, campaigning by helicopter, replied by calling Zik a crook and an oppressor. Both were under attack from the third major figure in the elections, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, ruler of the big, populous Moslem-dominated Northern Region (his symbol...
Presumably the North had the most votes, but-as an election last month showed in the neighboring Northern Cameroons-Moslems were restive under the ruling emirs. Alarmed, the Sardauna began a whirlwind electioneering bout, made 150 speeches in six weeks. The Sardauna did not want the federal prime ministership for himself, hoped for the honorary post of Governor General instead; his party's choice for independent Nigeria's top political job would be turbaned, scholarly Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who has already held the post of federal Prime Minister under the British crown for two years. In his speeches...
...areas in northern New England will have fair weather today, with a few snow flurries. Temperatures will be in the 30's daytimes and at lower levels and below freezing at night...