Word: northerners
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...this was generated by an organization composed mostly of students from prestigious, Northern liberal-arts colleges. What they had in common was a desire to change the world...
Early SDS projects emphasized members'commitment to social change and groupdecision-making. Volunteers moved to low-incomeareas of northern cities such as Chicago, wherethey attempted to organize unemployed neighborhoodresident and live according to the principles ofparticipatory democracy...
During the activists' 10 days of protest in thestreets of Chester, 57 students were arrested.These arrests represented the first large-scalestudent strike by any white, Northern campusgroup...
...airline whose legacy includes a pilot who, in 1986, tried to demonstrate his feel for an Aeroflot passenger jet by attempting to land with the cockpit blinds closed. More than 60 people were killed. But like the skipper, who survived, the tradition lives on. During a recent flight from northern Russia to Moscow, one curious passenger discovered a party in progress at the back of the plane. Vodka and sandwiches were being shared by most of the crew, including the copilot who, less than an hour from landing, had passed out drunk on a mountain of baggage...
Continued violence rocked Israel and the occupied territories on Wednesday, when a Palestinian suicide bomber exploded his car beside a bus in the northern Israeli town of Afula, killing seven and wounding 40. Islamic fundamentalists claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as for three incidents on Thursday, in which one Israeli died and five others were wounded. On Friday, Israeli soldiers and Palestinians clashed after the Rev. Jesse Jackson pleaded for peace outside the Hebron mosque where 30 Muslims were shot dead by an Israeli extremist in February. Eight Palestinians were injured in the violence...