Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small parties failed to unite, no single group emerged with enough strength to form a government. As a result, the Congress Party, which ended up 42 seats short of a majority, is attempting to organize a government by lining up the support of independent legislators. But in the northern state of Punjab, the Sikh communalist party, the Akali Dal, entered into a working arrangement with the Hindu Jana Sangh Party that will enable the two parties to form a coalition government...
...Durham, N.C., some 70 members of the Afro-American Society seized the ground floor of the administration building, dubbed it the "Malcolm X Liberation School" and held it for ten hours. Their principal desire: a black-studies program similar to those being started at Harvard, Yale and other Northern schools. When university officials finally gave the students one hour to vacate the building or face criminal prosecution, the rebels abandoned their sit-in. But just as it seemed that violence had been avoided by the administration's firmness, a 90-minute brawl erupted between police, the black protesters...
...takes several hours and several 200 bus fares for a woman to avail herself of them and, lacking a babysitter, she probably has to drag her other children along with her. The northern Bronx is largely white, Jewish and health-oriented; there, women go routinely to their private physicians for the same services...
...Mozambique in mid-1967 and since then had consistently opposed Mondlane. Last July, however, Mondlane seemed to have reconciled all the opposing factions within Frelimo. After persuading them that continued conflict could only harm their common cause, he went on to stage party elections in a "liberated area" of northern Mozambique. It was a dramatic propaganda victory, and Mondlane was confirmed as head of Frelimo. Nevertheless he was forced to expand the membership of Frelimo's executive committee to pacify his rivals...
...state's labyrinthine school system as an independent duchy that critics and supporters alike called "the fourth branch of government." Allen, who controlled schooling from pre-kindergarten through college, raised education expenditures to 40% of the state's $5.4 billion budget and led the fight against Northern de facto segregation. There is no doubt that he plans to exercise equal influence as the nation's top educational official. In his first statement after his appointment, Allen urged "a massive attack on the education needs of the disadvantaged and the ghetto residents"; he stressed the need to involve...