Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hogans). They swam in the afternoon and painted themselves luridly before going out in the evening. When they disliked someone, they cut out his heart and sent the rest of him back to his family. This picture describes, in handsome color and costume, an early attempt to civilize the region, as made by Father Junipero Serra, the first missionary to the Southern Californians...
...anticolonialism whipped up by the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, and with the united vote of the Soviet bloc, the General Assembly overruled its powerful Steering Committee (for the first time on a major issue) and voted to debate France's conduct in the troubled North African region of Algeria. The rebellion carried by only one vote-28 to 27*-but that one vote was enough to plunge the U.N. and France into dramatic antagonism...
Algeria is the heart and core of French North Africa, the home of 1,000,000 Frenchmen, a region enriched by billions in French investments and subsidies. Its land and its 8,000,000 Moslem natives, the French insist, have been integrated into the French nation on a basis of equality. But the statistics (e.g., average income of an Algerian Moslem family is about one-eighth that of a mainland French family), as well as the vast majority of Algerian natives, disagree. In recent months the disagreement has taken the form of violent nationalist resistance and bloody French reprisals...
...white people in the region raised a defense fund approaching $10,000 for Defendants Bryant and Milam. They hired five of Sumner's resident lawyers, who produced expert witnesses-including a doctor and an embalmer-to testify that the bloated, decomposing body had been in the river for at least ten days, and therefore could not have been Emmett Till. Sheriff Strider took the stand for the defense and said the same thing: "If it had been one of my own boys, I couldn't have identified it." In most of the U.S., this conflict over the identity...
...royal Laotian army (TIME. July 25). Communist food seizures, for shipment to Ho's hungry Red River Delta, have created such widespread famine that the U.S. International Cooperation Administration this month began air-dropping 1,000 tons of rice to the 100,000 peasants who inhabit the region. Even the International Control Commission, made up of representatives of Canada. India and Communist Poland -with its Polish members dissenting-has complained of Pathet Lao activities...