Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REAGAN era is a dull age. Americans have become doped on the mystique that this former movie actor sells. We drink Classic Cokes, listen to classic hits and wear classically tailored clothes. But dullness is not fought with boring, unemotional candidates. If the nation is to wake to the needs of it people, there must be a candidate with rough edges on which we can sharpen the blade of American political consciousness...
...began his college education at the University of Buffalo's night school, supporting himself as a clerk in the public library during the day. Reed had begun creative writing at the age of 14, and one of his short stories turned out to be his ticket out of night school and into the bachelor of arts curriculum at the University of Buffalo...
RECENT STUDIES have made evident the increasingly brutal tendencies of at least one segment of the German population. A government-sponsored study showed that 13 percent of Germans over the age of 18 consider themselves extreme right-wingers. That population, according to the survey, believes that the majority of journalists should be put in jail and considers foreign workers to be a mortal threat to the German nation. Even more disturbing, the survey found that the majority of the group yearns for a leader who could unify the nation as effectively as did Adolf Hitler...
...every child in a family. Republican Presidential Contenders Pat Robertson and Jack Kemp have taken up the subject in their speeches. Says Kemp: "Children are not just mouths to feed. They're our future, our precious resource." Just as the baby busters have started reaching voting age, they may find that their smaller numbers have become an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign...
...Antonov An-26 troop transport had just lumbered down the runway and taken off from Khost, near the Pakistan border, when it was blasted from the sky by mujahedin rebels. The incident, in which 37 Afghan soldiers and six crew members were killed, marked a coming of age of sorts for the mujahedin. Military analysts say the plane was the biggest prize yet claimed by the rebels' new arsenal of U.S.-made Stinger missiles...