Word: northerners
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Young has been an ambassador between different worlds from his childhood on. A Southerner in the North, then a partial outsider in the South, he could talk to all sides. In the 1976 presidential campaign, he convinced Northern liberals that Jimmy Carter was acceptable on racial matters. When Carter asked him to be ambassador to the U.N., Young said Barbara Jordan was better qualified. Carter, according to Young, replied, "You're right. But you have the one thing she doesn't have -- a connection with Dr. King. If we are to be convincing on the matter of human rights around...
...sudden squall lashed into the U.S. Navy dirigible Macon as it plied the skies off Northern California. The storm ripped off the upper tail fin of the 785-ft. craft, which plunged slowly toward the waters of the Pacific "like a big old hen settling down on a nest," in the words of one officer. All but two of the Macon's 83-man crew managed to survive by climbing onto life rafts. The Macon's demise abruptly ended the Navy's interest in huge rigid airships...
...political divisions also became religious -- and correspondingly bloodier. An obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed to the church door in Wittenberg his 95 theses against the Roman Church's sale of indulgences, partial pardons for souls in purgatory. The Lutheran faith, subsequently known as Protestantism, spread rapidly across northern Germany. Then, in the fratricidal ordeal known as the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), the French, Swedes and other nations joined in playing out their political and religious rivalries on German soil. Much of Germany was devastated and the starving survivors reduced to misery. In one of his best plays, Mother...
...Administration presented a partial -- and controversial -- plan to protect the northern spotted owl, a threatened species...
Despite mostly good news from Washington, the northern spotted owl is still out on a limb. Last week, only four days after the bird was declared a threatened species, the Bush Administration presented its plan to save the owl, preserve the ancient forest it inhabits in the Pacific Northwest and protect timber-industry jobs all at the same time. In fact, both environmentalists and loggers say, the plan does none of the above...