Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...APPALACHIA: Johnson wants this bill badly for his "war on poverty." It would offer about $1 billion-mostly in job-creating road construction-to the deeply depressed eleven-state Appalachia region where the unemployment rate has risen to 15%. The Senate approved a bill last year, but the House never got around to it because Democratic leaders could not muster enough votes in the waning hours of the session. Chances are brighter in the 89th, although Albert admits, "We may have some trouble...
Realistically, Nigeria has never been a nation in much more than name. It is divided into three mutually suspicious ethnic areas, the semifeudal but dominant Moslem Northern Region, the enterprising and oil-rich Eastern Region, home of the clever Ibo tribesmen, and the relatively urbane Mid-Western and Western regions, where sophisticated Yoruba leaders like to say, "We are the English of Nigeria, clever and diplomatic, no final commitments and always a foot in each camp." And despite its democratic facade, Nigerian politics is little more than a raw power struggle between two shifting alliances of regional and tribal parties...
Hired Thugs. The campaign they conducted-to elect the 312-seat national House of Representatives-was anything but a model for democracy. The most attractive opposition leader, Western Region Premier Obafemi Awolowo, had been sentenced to a ten-year jail term for supposedly attempting to overthrow the federal government. On both sides, hired thugs (known as "party stalwarts") invaded enemy political rallies with rocks, machetes, guns, even bows and arrows...
...Vote." The breaking point came two weeks before the elections, when Northern election authorities announced that 64 N.N.A. candidates would return to Parliament-unopposed. Immediately, Opposition Leader Michael Okpara, Premier of the Eastern Region, demanded that the elections be postponed until "the irregularities have been regularized" and U.P.G.A. candidates allowed to register. President Azikiwe, himself an Ibo from the East, backed the demand. But Sir Abubakar refused, and with that, the U.P.G.A. high command ordered its followers to boycott the election and its candidates to withdraw...
...seem to favor a plane that is tilted slightly away from the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. It is almost unthinkable, however, that the most distant observable objects may have a plan of arrangement. Can the universe itself, the astronomers ask, have a definite shape? Or is the region that they have been in the habit of calling the universe merely a detail of a larger and still unimagined structure? Clearly, the questions raised by quasars open a new chapter in astronomy...