Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago, the government submitted the constitution to a national referendum, announced a landslide (98%) majority for approval. But in the Kabylia mountains east of Algiers, fiercely independent Berbers staged a surprisingly effective boycott. Disappointed because Ben Bella has done little for their war-shattered region, and egged on by Marxist sympathizing Deputy Hussein Ait-Ahmed, who recently broke with Ben Bella, more than 50% of the half-million Kabylia voters stayed away from the polls. Said one Berber ex-guerrilla: "Independence? All we have got from it is the national flag...
Educated by Protestant missionaries and still a nonsmoking teetotaler, Awolowo worked his way to a London University law degree, served five years as the solid, efficient Prime Minister of his native Western Region and headed Nigeria's opposition party, the Action Group. Before independence in 1960, he was influential in drawing up Nigeria's constitution. Would Awolowo, a masterful organizer, really get mixed up in a half-baked, amateurish plot to wipe out his nation's top leadership with a handful of explosives, arms, and rebels trained in nearby Ghana...
...typical hour last week, radioed dispatches told the grim tale. Terra Rica: "Fires have destroyed the whole region." Santa Fé: "Incalculable material losses." Ipiranga: "The people are desperate." Curiúva: "35 dead, 60 treated in the medical center, 106 houses destroyed, 901 refugees." In Natingui, where 23 died, terrified town-folk described a "huge ball of flame about 100 meters around" that leaped suddenly out of the forest, landing on two homes at once...
Paper Curtain. New York's worst affliction is the paper curtain that separates teachers in the classroom from administrators at "Livingston Street," or Board of Education headquarters, an ugly box of a building in Brooklyn that once housed the Elks of the region. Livingston Street is awash with able, well-intentioned administrators, but most of them live by the numbers and have lost touch with the troops in the trenches. Teachers have to punch time clocks, use rigid "lesson plans" that often do not match student needs. They find principals too busy to talk-and principals in turn find...
...West, he passed along word to his American guest that Pakistan is not about to back down on the new air agreement it had just signed with China. Pakistan underscored its attitude toward Peking by announcing an agreement to survey the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir...