Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laughed when he created the Sudan," goes one Arab proverb. "Allah wept when he created the Sudan," goes another. Versions differ almost as diametrically about just what is going on today in the three swampy, southernmost provinces of Africa's largest country. For the past six. months, the region has been the scene of bloody uprisings among its 4,000,000 Negro tribesmen against their Arab rulers from the North. The Sudan's Prime Minister, moderate Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, announced in Khartoum last week that "the situation is much improved. The rebels will be crushed...
...house is no Xanadu; it is built in the seemly red brick style of the region, but there is something extravagantly not right about it. Imported craftsmen have constructed a spiral staircase behind a secret panel in the wainscoting, and an eight-foot brick wall topped by spikes encloses a 30-acre park...
Already allied planes-U.S. Navy, Marine and Air Force fighter-bombers, plus those of the South Vietnamese-are tightening the noose around the factory-rich region. In the last month, U.S. planes have attacked 13 SAM missile sites, mostly in the complex, one of them only 22 miles from Hanoi, the closest strike yet to the Red capital. For the first time, American aircraft last week lashed out at the vital communications link between Hanoi and Haiphong, loosing 49 tons of bombs on a rail and highway bridge. In two other missions, they blasted the main railway...
...should stress the application of various disciplines to Latin American affairs rather than a sweeping study of all the area's problems. "I don't think we should try to train 'Latin American experts,' the way many universities do," he said. "Instead, we should have economists specialize in the region's economy, historians in the history...
...week began to look for compromise. Nigeria's Chief Justice Adetokunbo Ademola sped off to Ibadan to try to hammer a coalition government under Akintola together. For Awolowo's cheated followers, coalition left much to be desired, but it would at least be better than nothing. "Any region that does not ally itself with the North will surely fade," said one realistic loser last week. "If we remain in the opposition for five more years, we shall be relegated to the burying grounds...