Word: separatist
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...well-bribed faction of Kalonji's own troops quickly joined the invaders. King Albert once again made his getaway; according to rumor, he took three cases of diamonds with him. At week's end the fleeing monarch turned up in Katanga, presumably getting sympathy from fellow separatist Moise Tshombe...
Caouette took full advantage of a growing wave of French Canadian separatist sentiment and disillusionment with the Liberal and Conservative parties, both dominated by English-speaking Canada. "You don't have to understand Social Credit to vote for it," he told those who failed to fathom the complexities of Social Credit...
...towns, paternalistically taught its workers to eat off plates and even sent some through high school (but no farther). When freedom-and chaos-came, La Génerale labored to do business as usual. Among other things, this meant paying millions of dollars in royalties and taxes to Katanga Separatist Moise Tshombe, enabling him to buy arms and defy the United Nations...
...joint session of Parliament, was the fulfillment of a campaign pledge that U Nu made 22 months ago to Burma's 20 million people, 85% of whom are Buddhist. It was bitterly opposed by religious minority groups-Moslems, the Animist Kachins, the Christian Chins-and by Buddhists in separatist-minded Karen and Shan states. But the amendment passed by a landslide 324-to-28 vote. Before he left for the neutralist meeting in Belgrade, ascetic Prime Minister U Nu, who three years ago took the vows of a Buddhist monk, pronounced the decision "the noblest deed, the greatest deed...
...dogs and Indian machine gunners of the U.N. force, the legislators made a forlorn stab at statesmanship. That it failed was largely the fault of two bedridden absentees: Red lining Antoine Gizenga, boss of Eastern province and heir apparent of Lumumba, and round-faced Moise Tshombe, President of the separatist state of Katanga...