Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Kerry, one of the founders of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, feels the VA is not generous in other areas either. He is particularly bitter about the medical care provided: "With the amount of money they pay, they don't attract graduates from the best medical schools. There are a lot of foreign doctors in the VA hospitals as a result, which is a morale problem, if not a medical...
...What brutal hypocrisy!" A wall poster responding to Deng's speech sneered that he and his Politburo cronies were "successors and followers" of the Gang of Four-the clique headed by Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing)-who had been Deng's most bitter enemies...
...perspective on all his characters. A couple who appear to be lovers turn out to be siblings. Antoine's plot for a new novel turns out to be a major clue to his recent behavior. A nemesis from The 400 Blows turns up to help Antoine understand his bitter relationship with his now dead mother...
...second largest, with 750 million adherents, to about 985 million for Christianity. Across the eastern hemisphere, but primarily in that strategic crescent that straddles the crossroads of three continents, Muslims are rediscovering their spiritual roots and reasserting the political power of the Islamic way of life. Repelled by the bitter fruits of modernization and fired by a zealous pride in its ancient heritage, the umma (world community) of Islam is stirring with revival...
Afghanistan. Since September the pro-Soviet regime of President Noor Mohammed Taraki has been caught up in a bitter civil war; Moscow has charged?and Washington has angrily denied?that the U.S. instigated the rebellion. Some of the insurgents are inspired by tribal animosities, others by political opposition to the government's leftist ways. According to one U.S. expert in the area, "Islam has proved to be the major unifying theme for the rebels." Many of them have moved to armed camps in Pakistan. Taraki has tried to highlight his own credentials as a good Muslim; recently the government publicized...