Word: secessionism
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Ultimatum. Since February, United Nations forces in the Congo had been armed with a Security Council resolution calling upon Tshombe to dismiss the 500 European officers leading his null army-and actively working toward maintaining Katanga's secession from the central Congo government, even at the cost of civil...
For months, the blacks and whites of Central Africa have been squabbling over control of Northern Rhodesia, a sprawling African territory containing 2,400,000 people above ground and 700 million tons of copper reserves below. Racing in and out of London, African Leader Kenneth Kaunda insisted that nothing short...
Tshombe came to Coquilhatville with the air of a man who was going to dictate his own terms. He declared that he would accept only a confederation in which Katanga would have nationhood of its own (and spend its own money). He mocked Kasavubu's willingness to cooperate with...
The Dunster House Committee decision to move for secession from the Student Council could well have stood some judicious deliberation. The Council is wearing a rather grimy visage these days, chiefly in consequence of the recent Phillips censure controversy. It seems possible that some of those who were disappointed with...
Though he also painted-somewhat in the manner of Whistler with a dash of Monet-he kept his word. In 1905 he helped Stieglitz start the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York, a rallying point for those who wanted to "secede from the notion that photography is only literal representation...