Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establishing the two-party system - actually a three-party system this year, with George Wallace's candidacy - the South has regained political leverage in other respects. Both major parties must compete there as in other regions; they can no longer regard the South as a bloc but must view it as a collection of diverse states with diverse interests. In this sense, the South has come of age politically. There are real rewards for the party that deals delicately with this constituency. The eleven states of the Old Confederacy contain 128 electoral votes and five Border States...
...Favor. Certainly, important elements of Nixon's emerging campaign strategy will appeal to conservative elements in the South, particularly his emphasis on the law-and-order issue. But, as he sees it, this approach is eminently usable outside the South as well, in view of the nation's current concern over crime and violence. Actually, there has been something of a depolarization over the racial issue, at least among many Northern and Southern whites. The Southerners have tended to become less conservative, the Northerners less liberal. Further, middle-road Republicans like Nixon discovered big, centralized government...
...other hand, the Organization of African Unity, which can agree on few things, has gone on record as supporting Nigerian sovereignty over Biafra. Its members, the national leaders of Black Africa, can only view the precedent of tribal breakaway with profound dismay, for each must cope with tribal divisions in his own country. "It was the Congo and Tshombe yesterday, and it is Nigeria and Ojukwu today," warns Gowon. "Who knows what African country will be the next victim...
...devised ways of protecting or enlarging their holdings. Even subdividers have learned that it pays to cluster, rather than spread, houses over their tracts. They save money by not having to develop all of their property-and customers are happy to give up a small backyard for a large view...
Faure has opened a frank, sympathetic dialogue with student and faculty dissidents. One of his most effective arguments in their view is that he is "presiding over the disappearance in its present state" of the Education Ministry itself. A prime-and wholly legitimate-target of the uprising was the ministry's total dominance of all public education. Some 2,000 functionaries, operating out of a musty building on Paris' Left Bank, control all decisions on curriculum, examinations, admissions and facilities...