Word: secessionist
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Benefiting from a four-way fragmentation of the vote, the strongly anti-secessionist Liberal Party won 72 seats out of 108, a 27-seat increase over its 1966 results. The ruling National Union Party, which had straddled the separatism issue, lost 38 of its 55 seats, while the right-wing federalist Créditiste Party won 12. The separatist Quebec Party actually finished second, with 23% of the popular vote. But because Quebec's representation is heavily weighted in favor of rural voters, the predominantly urban party won only seven seats. Even its leader, René Lévesque...
...trouble. Libya is threatening to issue a decree raising royalties. The Shah of Iran is fencing with foreign oilmen in an attempt to increase his government's take. Bolivian development stopped with the nationalization last October of Gulf Oil Corp. Nigerian production suffered during the long war over secessionist Biafra. By comparison, Indonesia seems relatively calm...
History Distorted. O'Brien, of course, is much too sly to pretend that he is recording straight history, even though he was a U.N. official in Katanga province in 1961 during its secessionist struggle with the Republic of the Congo. In one of the most disingenuous prefaces ever tacked onto a play, O'Brien announces: "My Hammarskjold and my Lumumba are not to be thought of as the 'real' characters of that name, but as personages shaped by the imitation of a real action associated with their names." What O'Brien is proclaiming here...
...Yaounde, the capital of Cameroun, they promptly patched up their differences. They had fallen out after Gabon's President Albert-Bernard Bongo and the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny recognized Biafra. The specter of the beaten Biafrans is likely to serve as a warning to secessionist leaders elsewhere in Africa. It may also embolden national governments to crack down more swiftly and effectively on breakaway elements...
Still, as long as Africa remains afflicted by tribalism and mired in economic difficulties, secessionist movements cannot be ruled out. And what about Nigeria? One pessimistic and probably exaggerated view is that the only thing holding Nigeria together has been the war against the Ibos. Less exaggerated, unfortunately, is speculation that an end of hostilities could be followed by trouble from another of the country's major tribes, the restive Yorubas of Western Nigeria...