Word: secessionism
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Both India and Pakistan are faced with the problem of political splinter groups advocating territorial secession, while Bangladesh must confront the economic problems of an emerging Third World nation.
Disputes over land ownership -some of them caused by opportunistic Moslems who sold the same piece of property to different people-finally erupted into sectarian violence in late 1969. Christian immigrants formed quasi-vigilante groups called Ilagas (rats) to ward off Moslems who were trying to seize land. The Moslems...
The shock of secession galvanized The Crimson into action. Suddenly, all the things everyone insisted couldn't be done--the scoops, the big stories, even the six page papers--became everyday happenings. Osborne Ingram, the inveterate invoker of the Deity, became Managing Editor, and made a journalistic silk purse out...
"The trouble with Nigeria," Sir Alec Douglas-Home once observed, "is that it is so complicated." Certainly this was true of the Nigerian civil war (1967-70), which was perceived by many foreigners as a brushfire rebellion in a barbarian land where thousands of children were being allowed to starve...
The invaders were members of the Ustaše, a fascist organization that had ruled Croatia under Hitler during World War II, and has agitated from abroad for Croatian secession ever since (TIME, June 5). The raiders were believed to have been recruited from right-wing Croats now living in...