Word: secessionists
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...least one aspect: suspicion of foreign exploitation of its plentiful resources, ranging from natural gas and timber to fisheries and gold. Tensions exploded in the 1990s on the P.N.G. island of Bougainville, where concerns over the environmental and economic effects of an Anglo-Australian-run copper mine sparked a secessionist struggle that claimed 15,000 lives over the course of a decade. (The mine, one of the world's largest open-pit sites, is now closed as a result of the civil war, which officially ended in 2000.) Separately, the national government was forced to declare a state of emergency...
...that would enhance regional cooperation as well as boost the nation's wealth. Calming separatist passions would also serve as a lesson to the Pakistani military, which, as seen during the traumatic and bloody independence of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), has a habit of trying to brutally stomp out secessionist movements. At a moment when there are so many hearts and minds to be won - and boots on the ground stretched so thin - it wouldn't hurt to give peace a chance...
...Rebellion was the first instance in which a President gave himself a one-time use of additional power. Abraham Lincoln took emergency action against the Southern states that seceded from the Union. Congress was not in session when he took office, so Lincoln enlarged the military and blocked the secessionist states' access to seaports on his own, calling his actions a "public necessity...
Earlier in the festivities, a few people had made speeches. One of the presenters, a retired professor of economics from Duke University named Thomas Naylor, 73, who heads up a secessionist movement in Vermont, suggested that Maine secede from the union. I asked Naylor, who doesn't own or particularly like guns, what he thought of the Second Maine Militia. "It's a variation on the Swiss shooting club, with social and political overlays," he explained. "It's a fairly benign way of confronting one's powerlessness...
health-care reform • advocates of are told by Texas secessionist to "Go back to the U.S. where you belong" • Obama will address Congress to try to repair the dog's breakfast he's made of • protester bolsters his argument that the government has no right to enact by brandishing a copy of the "U.S.S. Constitution...