Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly there was a prospect of dramatic political unrest and repression in the former U.S. colony, which might ultimately pose a threat to the two important U.S. military bases on the islands, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. The growing confrontation promised to redound to the benefit of the increasingly powerful Communist New People's Army, whose insurgency will soon, in the Pentagon's view, pose a real military challenge to the Marcos regime...
Above all, White House concern continued to focus on the two U.S. military bases, Clark and Subic Bay. Some U.S. officials feared that if Aquino ever took power, she would prove more susceptible to leftist pressure to remove the bases from Philippine territory. Others were concerned that an Aquino government would be unequipped to cope with the growing Philippine insurgency. Many simply did not believe that Aquino could ever wrest power from Marcos with anything less than armed force...
Tolya, as his friends call him, comes into the room with his characteristically bouncy gait. A diminutive man, Shcharansky is dwarfed by the strapping sabras who are with him in the apartment to keep the press at bay. "To be so small is a great advantage in camp," he jokes. "The prison clothes you get are always much too large." He flaps his arms and kicks out his feet in mock illustration of how the sleeves and trouser legs flopped over. "When you are put in a freezing-cold punishment cell, as I was for a total of 430 days...
Other candidates in the race include Kennedy, State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown), State Representatives Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay) and Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton), King, James Spiegal of Watertown, Republicans Clark Abt and Mildred Jefferson, and Cambridge activist Carla Johnston, a Democrat...
...referred to Clark Air Base and Subic Bay, the main forward point for the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet...