Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congo President Kasavubu, who had fought Tshombe's separatist demands for copper-rich Katanga, now was willing to accept them. The assembled dignitaries carved the new boundaries of the Congo along tribal lines. The city of Leopoldville woutd be a "neutral" capital, somewhat like Washington. D.C. There, Kasavubu would sit as first President of the confederation...
...internal squabble. The U.A.R.'s 510-man U.N. unit covertly assisted the pro-Lumumba forces that have taken over Eastern province and its Stanleyville capital. The U.N. troops of Guinea and Ghana obviously have been taking orders from their pro-Lumumba bosses back home. In the separatist province of Katanga, the U.N. Moroccan troops were under instructions from Rabat not to fire on anti-Tshombe forces...
...only nine hours to come up with "concrete solutions" to the Congo problem. All Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. need do, they said, was spring Russian-backed Patrice Lumumba from jail and restore him as Premier, evacuate all Belgian armed forces, reconvene the Congolese parliament and completely outlaw any separatist movements like that in mineral-rich Katanga province. If Hammarskjold refused to accept their blueprint, they threatened to pick up their soldiers (some 6,500 men, or one-third of the U.N. force in the Congo) and go home...
...Christ numbers 2.2 million, with each church almost completely autonomous. Formed in 1957 by a merger of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches, the new denomination allows considerable latitude of belief; by no means all now believe in the Trinity. Congregationalism was the English Separatist movement whose members founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620. As opposed to the concept of the church's having been established by God, Congregationalism is in the tradition of the "gathered" church, in which the individuals of the congregation form the church by coming together. The United Church recognizes...
Stave & Stupa. Johnson's recent work (see color) shows how far he has gone in breaking new ground while finding imaginative uses for old forms. The haystack-shaped shrine, set in a Grecian court in New Harmony, Ind., was built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems...