Word: secessionists
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...Speaking of the current secessionist movement in Alaska, can you imagine the consequences had Washington tried to tell Texans in the '30s that they could not lay oil lines across their state for fear of the effects upon the mating habits of the jack rabbit...
...Alaska to help preserve its natural grandeur, many Alaskans have harbored a deep resentment against the "meddling outsider"-especially the Federal Government in Washington, D.C., and "anti-development" conservationists. The recent oil-pipeline controversy, in particular, has turned resentment into outright antagonism and given new impetus to a budding secessionist movement...
...male hierarchy, some sisters are openly opposed to what they consider the excesses of renewal. About 120 of them have organized their views in a group called Consortium Perfectae Caritatis (Association of Perfect Charity). Nevertheless, the new nuns are confident that they are moving with a historical tide. With secessionist Sister Anita Caspary, they maintain that the church "stands to lose the whole community if it stands...
...Federal Republic of Nigeria, Africa's richest, most powerful and most populous nation (about 60 million), is pulling itself together after the devastating civil war that ended two years ago. A reconciliation of sorts has taken place between the federal government, headed by General Yakubu Gowon, and the secessionist republic of Biafra, now Nigeria's East Central state. The scars of war, physical as well as psychological, have mostly faded. The sole reminders of the airstrip at Uli-Biafra's only gateway to the outside world during the long federal siege-are the rusting hulks of five...
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau imposed martial law on Canada last Oct. 16, following the kidnappings of Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross by two separate cells of the FLQ. The law declared illegal membership in the secessionist group or support for its activities or goals...