Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds that hide the mountains of southwest Cyprus came a strange army of men dangling on ropes from hovering helicopters. Touching down in the region of Mount Troodos, the parachuters cordoned off a circular area while 2,000 British soldiers and Cyprus police moved into the villages. Operation "Black Mac," concluded last week, was rated by the British the largest and most successful campaign yet against EOKA, the Union-with-Greece underground that in the last 22 months has assassinated 98 British and 140 Cypriots on Britain's island base in the Mediterranean...
...South, many weeklies have consistently taken a more liberal stand than the region's big dailies on the touchy desegregation issue. In the midst of the race riots in Clinton, Tenn., last December, Weekly Editor Horace Wells's Page One Courier-News column calmly argued for peaceful integration of Clinton's high school, helped elect a pro-integration slate to the city council (TIME, Dec. 17). "How long," asked the Courier-News at the height of the hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely...
...genuine and far-reaching: "We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere. And beyond this general resolve, we are called to act a responsible role in the world's great concerns or conflicts-whether they touch upon the affairs of a vast region, the fate of an island in the Pacific, or the use of a canal in the Middle East...
...three ways: namely, by reducing the Middle Eastern nations' fear of overt attack, by helping their military planning, and by building up the stability of the region through effective economic aid. "If you put those three things together you get as complete a protection against internal subversion as is possible, unless you want to go around the world invading countries to throw out governments which you do not like...
...Krebs is the chief reason S.M.U. is the hottest basketball team the region has had in years, and S.M.U.'s hot record is the chief reason that the football-happy Southwest is taking a new look at the upstart sport of basketball. All around the conference, new field houses are bulging with fans of what many football coaches airily dismiss as "that round-ball game." Tangible proof of the new tradition at S.M.U. is the $2,250,000 field house off Mockingbird Lane completed this season. "We're not going to convert any dyed-in-the-wool football...