Word: secessionism
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For the most part, the play is a reenactment of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Remember them? They were about secession...and slavery...and union...and--you know--all those Civil War topics. From the tri-colored jumble that dominates the stage to periodic bursts of off-pitch folk singing, The...
Nowhere in the Western world is the tension between decentralized economic pursuits and the advantages of a strong federal government as evident as in Canada. Oil-rich Alberta, led by Conservative premier Peter Lougheed, is in the midst of a boom. The other Western provinces feel alienated by the distant...
Last week the British government released a 500-page investigative report that seemed to confirm the worst suspicions. Not only has Rhodesia received a steady supply of petroleum products since its secession, but for at least eleven years British subsidiary companies were among the chief suppliers. Worse, Her Majesty's...
That spirit was exemplified by Lukyanenko, who boldly helped found the unofficial Ukrainian Workers and Peasants Union in 1959. Its platform: secession from the U.S.S.R.-a right that is theoretically guaranteed by the 1936 Soviet constitution-and the establishment of an independent socialist Ukraine. In 1961 Lukyanenko was tried for...
Giorgio Laurent!, 33, worked for his Italian family's thriving manufacturing concern in Milan before deciding that his future lay in the U.S. With his German-born wife Iris, Countess zu Dohna-Lauck, 28, he moved to New York in 1974 and started a real estate investment concern that...