Word: secessionism
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Come Home Again. A year ago, when he fled to Spain in exile, Tshombe was Moses the Hated. As the leader of copper-rich Katanga province's abortive secession, finally crushed by the U.N., he had been damned as a traitor to African nationalism and a stooge of the...
French Canadians complain that "Englishmen" control Quebec's industries and natural resources, that although the country is officially bilingual the federal government operates in Eng lish only, that French Canadians are discriminated against in the civil service, and in a thousand other ways. The disaffection has been growing, until...
Angry Agreement. It was just this sort of talk that got the Lion thrown in jail the first time. Members of Nehru's Congress Party and the opposition found themselves for once in angry agreement, many of them demanding that the sheik be rearrested. Said Nehru's heir...
A little over a century ago, as the South Carolina convention was meeting in Charleston to vote for secession, James Louis Petigru, a native Charlestonian, was stopped by an out-of-owner who asked the way to the city insane asylum. "I don't know which insane asylum you're...
Today, the same scene could probably be repeated in Boston with only minor changes. In place of the South Carolina convention would be the Boston School Committee. With secession no longer an issue--at least for northern states--the crucial vote would concern the question of de facto segregation. And...