Word: south
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...growth of national politics with a universal franchise and universal publicity has made it much harder for a public figure to hide his indiscretions. Only politicians with safe constituencies can carry on the way they used to. By pacifying their constituents with assorted favors, Congressmen as diverse as South Carolina's hard-drinking Mendel Rivers and Harlem's high-living Adam Clayton Powell are still able to ride out allegations of impropriety. Where money is concerned the public is more exacting. As a Senator from Massachusetts, Daniel Webster maintained a private fund that had been collected from wealthy...
Unequal Treatment. Relations between Ulster's 1,000,000 Protestants and its Catholic minority of 500,000 have been severely strained ever since Northern Ireland was separated from the South. In the past ten months, however, sectarian bitterness has mounted, as Catholics intensified their protest against a system that had always shortchanged them in housing, employment and voting. It was a system that changed glacially, since it has been dominated by the Protestant-run Union Party and a Protestant oligarchy. Ironically, the Protestants were at last beginning to meet Catholic demands...
...forested Mount Hermon in southern Lebanon, the jump-off point for 21 attacks against Israeli farms and outposts in the past month. A third retaliatory raid silenced Jordanian heavy artillery near the Dead Sea, and a fourth hit Egyptian guns that had blasted Israeli troops on a beach south of Port Suez, killing one and wounding...
Indonesia, once a bastion of noisy self-righteous anticolonialism, last week formally took over a remote, primitive piece of real estate that can hardly be considered anything but a colony. By means of a blatantly rigged referendum, the Indonesians annexed West Irian, the western half of the rugged South Pacific island of New Guinea...
Arterbury pointed out that it was common in the South for prison wardens to economize by assigning prisoners to guard other inmates; he claimed that the shooting was an accident. But Arthur's lawyers argued that Williams' record made him unfit to be trusted with firearms. Since the defense did not ask for a jury, the decision was up to Federal Judge William Keady. Late last month Keady ordered Arterbury to pay $85,000 in damages to Arthur. "The moral sense of all reasonable men," said the judge, "would be shocked by the punishment visited upon the plaintiff...