Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonies. Thus, when they pulled out of Morocco in 1956 and gave up Algeria six years later, there was no clearly defined line for 600 miles along the north-south border between the two countries. It might not have mattered much, except that beneath the desert sands of the region was discovered one of the world's richest deposits of iron ore (65% pure iron), coal and other minerals. Morocco's King Hassan II claimed the area as part of his ancient kingdom, declared that the Algerian rebels had promised to turn it over in exchange for Morocco...
...same time, and for the same reason, the once-solid Democratic South has been turned into a region in which anti-Kennedy whites may well vote Republican...
...while, at least, Algeria was back at war last week. In the rugged mountains and deep canyons of the Kabylia region, where guerrillas had fought for independence for 71 years, new guerrilla fighting erupted that was almost as bitter as the war against the French...
...overrun by successive invasions of Arabs, Romans, Vandals, Spaniards, Turks, and finally the French -but it has never been totally subdued. No Algerians fought more heroically in the 1954-62 guerrilla war against France; yet the Kabyles charge that Arab Ben Bella has done little for their devastated region. Indeed, grass is growing up around the cornerstones of many a promised textile mill...
...similar fix would have settled for moving their costly harbor works, but Duisburg found an ingenious way out. Under the city-harbor and all-lie three rich seams of coal. Engineers figured that if this coal was extracted properly, the ground above would settle evenly, and the whole harbor region could be lowered by as much as 7.5 ft., permitting the lowered Rhine to fill the harbor once more. There was $150 million worth of coal below the city, and it could be sold to pay for most of the surface damage caused by the settling...