Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outrage at Kim's expulsion quickly spread to the volatile university campuses. Following a series of antigovernment rallies, major riots erupted in the southern port city of Pusan. More than 3,000 students, joined by older demonstrators, charged through the streets, attacking government buildings. A total of 73 policemen were injured, and scores of demonstrators arrested. The protests spread to the industrial city of Masan. Park responded with a crackdown-ordering virtual martial law in both cities...
...what will be their course of study, what will they do (if) when they return to South Africa may appear to ameliorate some antagonism toward this program. What President Bok and Bishop Muzorewa don't understand, though, is that history is not on their side. The liberation struggle across Southern Africa 'gains momentum with every new day and each new atrocity committed against freedom by the white-dominated regimes. These regimes and their Western backers can buy time but they cannot buy the hearts and minds of the African people. Victory is certain! --Robert J. Harper II HGSE
...UNDERSTAND BAKER's free reign on national issues one has to go back to Scott County. The only thing that divides the northwestern county, which borders on the edge of Kentucky, is the Cumberland mountains and the southern Appalachians. It has no political machines to run amok during elections, although the Republican label and the last name 'Baker' carry plenty of support. The schoolchildren, mostly sons and daughters of coal miners and farmers, attend lily white public schools and eat free lunches. Bussing has never mattered because Scott County has not had a single black resident for at least...
Baker's popularity did not just grow from the toothy grin and Southern twang he carries in his political make-up bag. He inherited the power to attract followers from his father, who served six terms in Congress and his mother, who took the seat for awhile after the elder Baker's death. And when Howard Baker decided to get married he selected Joy Dirksen, a blonde midwesterner and daughter of the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Besides his political connections, Baker is a Republican, and eastern Tennessee is almost all Republican. And Presbyterian--just like Baker...
...learn? You've lost Asia and you haven't learned. You've lost most of Africa and you have't learned. Why don't you get on the side of the winners for once? Why can't you learn to stop these mistakes and be with the victors in Southern Africa...