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...secretary of domestic defense. The foreign adversaries her husband, Dick, must keep at bay are less dangerous, in the long run, than the domestic forces with which her husband must deal. Those forces are fighting against the conservation of the common culture that is the nation's social cement...
...secretary of domestic defense. The foreign adversaries her husband, Dick, must keep at bay are less dangerous, in the long run, than the domestic forces with which her husband must deal. Those forces are fighting against the conservation of the common culture that is the nation's social cement...
...home," then, targets the Left and anyone who openly challenges the nation's "social cement" (read: racism, sexism and homophobia...
...wing and enforcement units, known collectively as the "black network." It maintains its own diplomatic relations with foreign countries through bank "protocol officers" who use seemingly limitless amounts of cash to pursue Abedi's goals. B.C.C.I. trades massively and for its own account in commodities ranging from grain, rice, cement and coffee to timber, carpets and anchovies. It is a force to be reckoned with in international oil markets and, through its intertwined relationship with the Gokal brothers' shipping interests, is a shipping conglomerate as well. Taken altogether, B.C.C.I. commands virtual self- sufficiency as a purveyor of goods around...
...been for your visits, wonderful letters and your love, I would have fallen apart many years ago," Nelson wrote Winnie from his Robben Island prison cell in 1979. His sense of family and corresponding feelings of guilt at having left her and their two daughters behind also helped cement the relationship. "I have often wondered whether any kind of commitment can ever be sufficient excuse for abandoning a young and inexperienced woman in a pitiless desert," he wrote in another letter...