Word: 1960s
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...country in which medical breakthroughs occur with dizzying regularity, the U.S. has been disturbingly backward in the field of contraception research. Not a single fundamentally new birth-control method has been introduced since the Pill and the IUD, or intrauterine device, came out in the early 1960s. Meanwhile, in several European countries, a series of contraceptive innovations has broadened the range of methods far beyond what is available in the U.S. -- and sharply reduced the number of unwanted pregnancies...
...Common, and I was curious to see who was making all the noise. Although I initially looked at the protest with an critical and skeptical eye, I quickly became impressed by the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, a group of people intent on revitalizing the activism of the 1960s...
MAYBE it's the Oliver Stone movies. Maybe it's China Beach. Maybe it's just 1960s activists coming out of hibernation...
...involved in Southeast Asia 20 years before American soldiers began to die there in large numbers. From Truman to Nixon, U.S. Presidents propped up undemocratic and unpopular South Vietnamese regimes and lied about the extent of American participation in the war. In the 1960s these immoral policies, justified only by anticommunist rhetoric and concerns about U.S. prestige and hegemony, composed the framework of anti-war protest...
...upbringing. He too came from a peasant background and entered the world of crime through family connections. In the chapters on his personal history, the book details all the people whom Saddam personally has killed, his role in coup attempts and his job as a torturer in the early 1960s...