Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Title VI has begun to make some headway in the South, it is time that the federal government show some concern with the problem of Northern de facto segregation. The Office of Education is carrying out studies in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Chester, Pa., to determine the type of guidelines that should be applied to schools in the North. We hope that it will not be long before federal education officials finish their research and are able...
...Society, which will advise the church about stands to be taken on contemporary social issues. Tentatively, the delegates also agreed to supplement the classic Westminster Confession of 1647 with a modern statement of faith similar in purpose to the Confession of 1967 that will be considered by the "Northern" United Presbyterians at their 178th General Assembly later this month...
...hard-boiled area of steel mills and oil refineries with an abrasive ethnic mix, northern Lake County has not only been invaded by thrill seekers from shuttered Chicago; the crime syndicate, known locally as "the Outfit," has also found a cozy haven there. So cozy, in fact, says a local minister, that today Gary, with a population of only 178,000, has "every problem, vice and crime known...
...traveled north to his home territory, where riot and uneasiness still simmer. The five northernmost provinces that comprise the I Corp are, in fact, still largely in open rebellion against the Saigon government and completely removed from its control. Pleading for moderation, Tri Quang tried to calm the northern cries for Ky's immediate ouster. Speaking in Hue, he said bluntly: "Your demands do not meet the general consensus, so you must curb them. That is the first start of a democracy." Next day, addressing a crowd of 10,000, including 2,000 soldiers, at the Dieu Da Pagoda...
...Viet Nam's confused political situation become last week that at one point it nearly produced civil war. Flown from Saigon by Premier Ky to "liberate" the northern town of Danang, three battalions of Vietnamese marines at Danang Air Force Base showed every sign of marching into the city. When he heard of this, Colonel Dam Quang Yeu, commander of Vietnamese army troops at Hoi An, 15 miles to the south, decided to march on Danang to block the paratroopers. With several hundred men, 13 armored carriers, four 155-mm. howitzers and enough ammunition to blow up a city...