Word: northerners
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...aftermath of the Civil War was a painful time for both Black and white residents in the South. Northern politicians eagerly used all of the resources they had at their disposal to punish and humiliate the losers. They ignored the fact that most of the vanquished Southern people were not rich plantation owners and secessionist politicians. Many were poor but proud farmers who worked the land, just as generations of slaves had done since before the founding of Harvard...
...then, cautious intelligence estimates had been replaced by loud alarms. In mid-July, Iraqi supply buildups were considered large enough for a military operation in northern Kuwait, possibly to take disputed border oil fields or Bubiyan Island. A week before the invasion, at the very time Glaspie was meeting with Saddam, senior officials at the White House, Pentagon and State Department were advised in intelligence briefings that Saddam was not bluffing. His patience with Kuwait was growing thin. Intelligence summaries cited Iraqi air exercises indicating preparation for a massive ground assault...
...ghosts of Vietnam. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's generals are licking their wounds from Afghanistan, bringing home the pieces of the Warsaw Pact and supervising commando raids against civilians in restive republics. That makes them all the more dyspeptic about their principal rival's pummeling a longtime Soviet client whose northern border is only about 400 miles from the U.S.S.R. Moreover, Operation Desert Storm is decimating a military establishment made up largely of Soviet equipment -- MiGs, T-72 tanks and the suddenly famous Scuds...
...burst of hoax calls and bottled up nearly 500,000 metropolitan commuters. Coming only 11 days after the I.R.A. lobbed mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, the bombings aim at sustaining the terrorists' claim that they can and will bring dislocation to England just as they do in Northern Ireland...
...blasts signaled not only an intensification of the organization's drive to oust the British from Northern Ireland but also a return to the tactics of the 1970s when civilian targets, including train and subway stations, were hit indiscriminately. That strategy was abandoned after a 1983 car bomb outside Harrods department store killed six people and caused a wave of revulsion against the I.R.A. But authorities fear that frustrated hard-liners have once again decided that bloody activity on the mainland is a far more effective way to prove that British rule in Ireland is untenable...