Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's sailing team-which finished in seventh place in the women's national competition earlier in the week-also earned individual awards. Lauren Toretta and Margaret Gill each received All-America honors for their work as crew and skipper, respectively...
...those students who had served in the war, the GI Bill offered a unique opportunity to continue their education at America's oldest university...
Return to the dialectics of the time: Lie No. 1, communism itself, eventually introduced America to Lie No. 2: "I am not a communist." Which set the stage for Lie No. 3: "I have here in my hand a list...
...struggles (though unsuccessfully) to join in the son's self-deception. William F. Buckley Jr., who as a young conservative in the 1950s was a friend to both Chambers and McCarthy, gives his version of McCarthy in a documentary novel, The Redhunter. And in Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr analyze the deciphered '40s cable traffic, recently released, between Soviet agents working in America and their masters in Moscow--files that show there was far more spying, and far more complicity by American party members, than was previously thought...
...Venona traffic validates the "even paranoids have enemies" school. Although Venona might have saved America a lot of internal strife had it been released years ago, it demonstrates beyond argument that the Soviet penetration into American life, government, science and industry during the '30s and '40s was deep, thorough and hostile. Venona shows that the American Communist Party was elaborately involved in the spying (though of course only a small minority of party members were actual spies). To fake the Venona traffic would have required a conspiracy involving thousands, working together over many years. Furthermore, the decrypted messages are often...