Word: secessionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a time, after the elections of 1948, when the English speakers tried to resist the Afrikaners' complete political takeover. Some 250,000 mainly English war veterans, bitter about their antagonists' widespread pro- Nazi sympathies, formed a paramilitary organization called the Torch Commando (with Oppenheimer financing) to oppose the...
Encompassing 160 different ethnic tribes scattered across Africa's largest country, the 22 million people of Sudan, two-thirds of them Muslim, have never had much unity. Indeed, the nation has been torn by civil war in one form or another ever since it began preparing for independence from Britain...
Johnson, who holds degrees in both law and medicine, is ambiguous on the issue of independence. His election was a defeat for hard-line P.Q. separatists. Only one out of six Quebecers, according to a Gallup poll released last week, still favors secession. But his victory may prove short- lived...
The European Photo Secession and the Beginning of Modernism: By Janet E. Buerger. Gilman Room, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard, 4pm.
Hope glimmered faintly last week that the often bloody problem of autonomy- seeking Sikhs in Punjab, an Indian state on the border with Pakistan, may finally be easing a bit. Nearly ten months after the Indian army stormed the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, the central shrine of the 15...