Word: secessionism
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Despite the apparent absurdity of it. the Pumpi tea party was a dead serious affair arranged so that Tshombe could peacefully escort United Nations troops into Kolwezi. the last major objective in its drive to end Katanga's 2½-year secession. Typically. Tshombe failed to show up at...
The Katanga struggle seemed over at last. It had been a 2½-year siege that brought the U.N. close to bankruptcy, set the U.S. at odds with its principal European allies and threatened to immerse Central Africa in blood. Now, Katanga's Rebel Moise Tshombe sat wanly behind...
Royboy refused to admit defeat. "I will go on fighting to alter a decision I consider wrong in every way," he thundered before an emergency session of his Federal Parliament in Salisbury. In London, beleaguered R. A. Butler, Deputy Prime Minister who is in charge of Central African affairs, wearily...
Taylor is impressively effective in suggesting this mounting tension which marked the sectional debate in the 45 years between its beginning and the secession of South Carolina. His major method is the careful reading of the "second-rate" literature of the period, which he rightly believes is more likely to...
Calhoun picked up the doctrine 30 years later and turned it into the general Southern dogma known as "nullification." Nullification led to secession, and to the Civil War which "finally exterminated the doctrine's arguable validity," according to McCloskey.