Word: secessionism
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Secession for New York City?
THAT bitter justification for demanding that New York City seek statehood carries the contemporary flavor of Mayor John Lindsay's continuing crusade for municipal independence. Yet it was offered more than a century ago by a Lindsay predecessor, Mayor Fernando Wood, in 1861. More recent mayors, including Jimmy Walker...
Sometimes the church is not at fault. When young people began to come into the smoothly running, upper-middle-class congregation at La Jolla (Calif.) Lutheran Church, Pastor Charles Donhowe started evening meetings for them. Soon Donhowe had two congregations, the regular Sunday-at-11 variety and the new Christians...
Blacks in Hancock and across the South are creating a place for themselves, one that has been historically denied them. Although deep-seated feelings change slowly, the region's whites are learning at last to accept this new place for the blacks in their midst. It is not surprising that...
Europe's oldest indigenous tribe, with a trilling language whose roots have not yet been discovered, the Basques fought off the Romans, the Visigoths and the Moors. They lost little love on Spain's Castilian kings. Though a threadbare Basque government-in-exile hangs on in Paris, most...