Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gowon himself knew better. Desperately he recalled 600 troops from Bonny, a federal foothold in Biafra. From the Northern capital of Kaduna, another 500 came racing in on railroad cars. From Lagos itself, more troops moved out to meet the invading Biafrans. For transport they commandeered everything available; groundnut wagons rolled toward the front behind big red-and-silver municipal passenger buses. But hard as the federal troops hit back, the rebels continued to hold Ore. And since the rebel forces of Oxford-educated Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu are largely Ibo tribesmen, Nigerians behind the front in Lagos retaliated...
There is just one place in the world where that is being done consistently and effectively-Northern Ireland's dour capital city of Belfast. At the Royal Victoria Hospital, Cardiologist James F. Pantridge combed the records and found that 60% of heart-attack deaths occurred within the first hour...
Turning the Screw. The raids were part of the Administration's newly ex panded list of Northern targets. Starting with the successful attack a fort night ago against Hanoi's Paul Doumer rail and highway bridge, the missions were planned to apply yet another turn of the screw against North Viet Nam's vital rail system. Though the U.S. has long been attacking the railways south of the buffer zone, Hanoi still imports the vast bulk of its war materiel by train. While petroleum, food and fertilizer imports come in mostly by sea, the rail system...
...desperate bid to wrest command from extremists, King declared nonviolent war to remedy the slum dweller's plight in Northern cities, promising a wave of civil disobedience, school boycotts, marches, sitdowns and sit-ins instead of fire bombs and snipers. "Mass disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force," declared King. But there were doubts about whether his S.C.L.C. could actually organize such nonviolent rebellion-or keep it nonviolent...
...hopes of acquiring Western Power & Gas Co., a public utility operating in 13 states from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. - General Telephone & Electronics Corp., the nation's largest independent telephone system, stood to get even larger by agreeing to a $145 million stock transaction that will merge Northern Ohio Telephone Co. into a new General Telephone subsidiary. The takeover of Northern Ohio, which serves 161,000 telephones in 24 Ohio counties, comes just three months after an even bigger deal with the 310,000-phone Hawaiian Telephone Co., and it expands General Telephone's U.S. network...