Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This weekend the squad will participate in the southern division of the New England Rifle League Tournament. The top two teams in this contest will meet the top winners of the northern division for the tournament championship...
Naturally enough, the Powell Amendment has come in for a great deal of Southern criticism. Should the bill, with the amendment attached, ride through the House on Northern votes, it is certain to fail in the Upper House where Dixie Senators would block its passage. If Powell does not agree to withdraw his amendment, therefore, he will probably kill all chance of federal aid to school construction--at least during this session of Congress...
...full employment outside of uniform, and security without regimentation and control"), Nixon spoke of great gains in civil rights. Said he: "And, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, the great Republican Chief Justice, Earl Warren, has ordered an end to racial segregation in the nation's schools." Northern Democrats soon charged that Nixon was dragging the high court into politics; Southern Democrats cried that his statement proved the school decision was political. The New York Times's even-handed Pundit Arthur Krock, who praised Nixon's "otherwise well-documented account" of the Administration's accomplishments, wondered...
...dictator then turned back to military problems. At week's end he was reportedly concentrating his eight Thunderjets and 20 Hawker Hunters at northern bases in readiness for an air strike at the rebels. With Merino still sitting tight and hoping for the time factor to operate, it was clearly Odria's move...
While the State Department's position on the jets will enrage the Arabs and aggravate the French, it cannot further either of its conflicting aims in the Middle East--mutual security or the protection of Israel. Israel is not a part of the vital northern tier which Dulles feels must be armed to save the Middle East from Communist attacks. Nor would the jets really give Israel internal security: she could never maintain enough to forestall a large-scale aggression, while just a few warplanes might stimulate that aggression. As Dulles himself has pointed out, Israel is too small...