Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration's caution has tended 'to blur the guidelines for school desegregation, casting doubt on the inevitability-or at least the near-term certainty-of enforced integration in the South. The result is a loss in valuable psychological momentum. For local Southern officials, the pressure to integrate can be cruel, and the most effective argument they can make to their constituents is that integration is inevitable under the law. If Washington's course is ambivalent, if school districts that have held out the longest against the law are now granted still more delays, then the position...
...southern Sudan, the long-awaited rains have left the countryside carpeted in a lush green. The valley of the rain-swollen Upper Nile is alive with gazelles, dik-dik and brightly plumaged birds, and the elephant grass is five feet high. Over the past several years, that luxuriant growth often concealed guerrilla fighters of the dread Any a Nya (Scorpion) independence movement, but now there are signs that one of the most long-lived conflicts in Africa has begun to ebb. Last week, TIME Correspondent William Smith visited the Sudan and filed a report on a hopeful lull...
...Sudan's three rebellion-wracked southern provinces sprawl across the turbulent boundary line between the Arab world to the north and Black Africa to the south. It is in these provinces, where the grassy savannah meets the tropical forest, that the clash between the two worlds has been bloodiest. Africa's largest country in terms of area, the Sudan is dominated by the 9,000,000 Arabs of the north; the south's 4,000,000 blacks have long felt ignored by the Moslem politicians in Khartoum. In 1955, a year before the Sudan achieved independence, black...
Last May, a military coup toppled the Sudan's civilian government, and policy toward the south began to change. There is little doubt that the southern problem is the chief concern of Major General Gaafar Mohamed Nimeri, leader of the new government. Within two weeks after taking power, he set down a four-point plan calling for southern regional autonomy, and he has ordered the army to help build up the south's economy. Addressing his troops in the south two weeks ago, he said: "Now you must carry a rifle in one hand and a tool...
...schools closed down after the 1965 massacres have reopened. Journalists, long barred from the south, are now welcome. "Go anywhere you like," an official urged, "and stay as long as you wish. We want you to learn the truth." According to Brigadier General Mohamed Abdul Gadir, head of the Southern Command since the May coup, the Anya Nya are short of arms and ammunition...