Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th century American history or gov course will give you an analysis of why the Cuban revolution occurred, and doubtless a professor will tell you that Guantanamo Bay played some sort of role. Castro, at any rate, used it with great effect. In the mid-60s he halted the employment of Cuban workers at the base. At the same time he accused the Americans of "stealing" Cuban water through the pipeline from the mountains which had served the base since the turn of the century. In response, the Navy severed the pipeline, engineered a 'waterlift' of freshwater tankers...
...Allan Boesak illustrates what is happening to committed non-violent leaders all over South Africa. Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, was charged with subversion after he called for school and consumer boycotts and withdrawal of foreign investments. He was freed on bail on September 20th after spending nearly a month in jail...
...party line, one earthquake may signal that another could occur; sites that lie between past gaps hit by recent tremors are the areas most likely to rupture next, rather the way buttons popping on a shirt put greater pressure on the buttons still intact. Noting that earthquakes in the 20th century have periodically shaken surrounding regions, geologists knew that Mexico's Michoacan gap--quiescent for many decades--could not hold out forever. "Wherever stress builds up for a long time in a seismic gap," says David Simpson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, "something's got to give...
...three terms as mayor of New York City, a politician must come to personify the town. Fiorello La Guardia and Robert Wagner did so and became the only three-termers in the 20th century. Now the brash and blabby Edward Koch is about to join them. Last week he won the nomination for a third four- year term with the heaviest majority in any Democratic mayoral primary this century. Koch, 60, vaporized his opponents, City Council President Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., by taking 64% of the city's Democratic vote. His electric personality and his record...
...AIDS suits the style of the late 20th century. In possibly overheated fears, it becomes a death-dealing absolute loose in the world. Westerners for some years have consolidated their dreads, reposing them (if that is the word) in the Bomb, in the one overriding horror of nuclear holocaust. A fat and prosperous West is lounging next door to its great kaboom. It is both smug and edgy at the same time. Now comes another agent of doomsday, this one actually killing people and doubling the number of its victims every ten months as if to reverse the logic...