Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Washington, he reviewed several alternative plans prepared by the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Three of these alternatives were: 1) U.S. adherence to the Baghdad Pact, which links the Northern Tier nations of Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Turkey to Britain; 2) U.S. proposal of a "Middle East Charter" that would invite the area nations to subscribe to a statement of social and economic betterment for their peoples, with no reference to military considerations; 3) bilateral treaties between the U.S. and individual Arab states. Out of these policy papers Dulles borrowed some ideas, junked a great many...
...good patriots to make a campaign issue of the flaming question of partition, emphasized in recent months by a sharp increase in border raids by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Though campaign speeches by all contestants dutifully included at least one soaring reference to the injustice of dividing Northern and Southern Ireland, both the speakers and their listeners knew that none of the old men who lead Irish politics today, nor even men much younger than they, were likely to live to see partition's end. The Sinn Fein (We Ourselves) Party, the political front for the I.R.A...
...President Sukarno's white-pillared presidential palace at Djakarta, Java came report after report of revolt and separatist movements, from the northern tip of Sumatra on the Indian Ocean to Borneo, the Celebes and Amboina, some 3,000 miles away in the Banda Sea. There was a new outbreak in South Sumatra. It is largely the reputation of Sukarno that holds the sprawling Republic of Indonesia together, but what threatened to sever it last week was a recent decision by Sukarno himself: to include Indonesia's Communists in his government...
Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
Thus the bill, as amended, should receive overwhelming non-Southern support. Since filibusters become more dangerous toward the end of a session, the main obstacle now is delay. Quibbles over words take time, and Southern Democrats are organizing their own dilatory tactics. Republicans and Northern Democrats should temporarily set aside their hopes for a complete guarantee of civil liberties to take one practical step in that direction...