Word: secessionism
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Secession Sentiment. As the settler population doubled and doubled again, the rising ferocity of Indian resistance was not the only danger. Beyond the Indians to the southwest were the Spanish in New Orleans, the "stopper in the Mississippi bottle," blocking the only cheap export route. Behind the Indians to the...
The purpose of the gerrymander is to remove any power base to which Tshombe might return. Premier Cyrille Adoula and other central-government leaders in Leopoldville have been terrified of a renewed secession attempt in Katanga once U.N. troops pull out of the Congo. A personal campaign against Tshombe began...
The other three were Gordon W. Allport, Robert W. White, and Henry A. Murray, who, by contrast, concerned themselves with personality and its relation to social environment. Frustrated at every point by a department that was both professionally and personally hostile, the minority considered secession. Two members of other departments...
Bombs may be common in the southern part of the Western Hemisphere, but what was going on in peaceful Canada? Near some of the bombsites appeared the signature FLQ, meaning Front de Liberation Quebecois. The Front is a lunatic fringe of violent nationalists whose aim is the secession of French...
Pressure & Conformity. Academic freedom has two historic liens on it in the U.S. Most U.S. colleges were founded by churches, and dogma long kept a restraining hand on evidential inquiry. Then came state universities, dominated by legislatures and Governors, who control the purse strings. Vulnerable to doctrinal or political pressures...