Word: northerner
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...thorn tree to celebrate their return to their ancestral lands. A hand-lettered cardboard sign hanging on a frayed tent nearby read Ra Boile Gae in Pedi, a language spoken in the north of the country, and Home Sweet Home in English. Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned renown for the juicy peaches they sold. In 1974 their homes, schools and churches were bulldozed by the National Party...
...remote meadow in northern Michigan, inside a large tent heated by a wood stove, 50 white men dressed in combat gear and wielding rifles talk about the insanity of the outside world. The men, civilians all, see threats everywhere. There are reports of foreign soldiers hiding in salt mines under Detroit, some of the men say. Others speak of secret markings on highway signs meant to guide conquering armies. The men's voices subside as "General" Norman Olson, a Baptist minister, gun-shop owner and militia leader, enters the tent. He tells the men they are the shock troops...
...Irish parliament elected a conservative prime minister today, filling a month-old vacuum that threatened to derail the Northern Ireland peace process. John Bruton, leader of the Fine Gael party and the new P.M., is on the record as supporting the peace process that's been underway since September when the Irish Republican Army declared a ceasefire. Still, he has criticized the quick pace with which his predecessor, Albert Reynolds, embraced the IRA. Reynolds lost his seat in a scandal last month over the extradition of an alleged child-abusing Roman Catholic priest. Bruton was elected to head his country...
...wielding Palestinian killed a female Israeli soldier in the northern Israeli town of Afula, where a suicide bomber killed eight Israelis in April. Wahib Abu Alrub struck 19-year-old Liat Gabai in the head several times as she waited at the town's bus station. Abu Alrub said he committed the crime on behalf of the militant Islamic group Hamas to rehabilitate himself after being accused of collaborating with Israel...
...feel like he could be you." People might feel the same way about Allen's offstage life. He lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife Laura and five-year-old daughter Kady. But they travel frequently back to Michigan and just bought a lake house in the northern part of the state, right next door to his in-laws. Allen remains friendly with a clubhouse gang of old neighborhood pals. Ken Calvert, a Detroit disc jockey, still tries to match him in things like power lawn mowers. Calvert cross-cut his yard with twin 21- in.-blade Lawn...