Word: supremacists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend among Republican candidates has been toward moderation on civil rights. Governors Spiro Agnew of Maryland and Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas won office even though their Democratic opponents "outsegged" them; in Virginia's 1965 gubernatorial race, moderate Republican Linwood Holton lost to Democrat Mills Godwin, a hardline white supremacist who shifted his stance to court Negro votes. Last week the move toward moderation manifested itself for the first time in that bastion of the white South, Mississippi...
...delegation to Nigeria to offer advice on ways to end the civil war. Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somalian diplomats took the occasion to arrange talks for next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands of black "freedom fighters" who seek to overthrow the regime. As for the Congo's white mercenaries, entrenched in the border town of Bukavu, the heads of state demanded that they...
...somehow get the rioting black-power radicals and the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klansmen into the same arena. They're so deserving of each other's throats...
Earlier this month, Rhodesia's 3,000 tobacco farmers, who have been the staunchest supporters of the white supremacist regime, heard their government's dictated solution. Next year's harvest must be cut by 34%, which means that some 600 of the country's farmers will either have to grow other commodities or get out of the business...
...Offers. Naturally, the sanctions have proved no deterrent whatever to Smith's white-supremacist policies. With the nearly unanimous backing of his fellow whites, his government is in the process of writing a new constitution that is expected to reduce the importance of or even eliminate the 15 Deputies now elected to Parliament by Rhodesia's blacks. Smith is also promoting a "Community Development Program," under which taxes paid by whites will go to the development of the white community, and taxes paid by blacks-whose earning power is onetenth that of the whites-will be spent...