Word: dismemberments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clark gave the impression of dismantling the federal authority. He talked of Canada as a "community of communities"; he said offshore resources belonged to the provinces; he tried to dismember Canada's national oil company, PetroCan, and repeatedly waxed inconsistent. In addition, he ceded Loto Canada, formerly the Olympic lottery...
Military historians have spilled much ink on the difficulties of pushing the German army out of Italy. Mowat writes sparely and in the blood of his friends. They fall by the score while crossing exposed rivers and valleys, and stumble upward to their deaths during assaults on heavily fortified mountaintops...
He also says, "SAVAK would sometimes dismember children of suspected political dissenters to gain confessions. They held some of the children aloft and proudly exhibited their own scars and stumps." This is an outrageous statement. Did he ever witness this extraordinary process? Even though he may have been exposed to...