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...Great Helmsman Mao is the architect of catastrophe in both books. His hatred of a bureaucratic elite inspired callow Red Guards to disrupt all order in China, while his contempt for intellectuals lobotomized the finest minds of the nation. The irony of the Cultural Revolution was that it massacred Yet Mao's greatest error was his encouragement of China's population explosion. In three decades of Communist rule, the population has nearly doubled. This increase of 450 million equals the population of the U.S. and Western Europe. As a result, the actual strides in industry, agriculture and public...
There are only a few things that have been able to interrupt of otherwise disrupt a Harvard Commencement. But the one time in recent years when stormy weather did force the ceremonies inside Sanders Theater where they were held from 1876 through 1915--there were more things for University officials to worry about than an early June downpour. The year was 1968, and it was, Anderson says, "the start of student dissent," when Harvard students protested the appearance of Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, whose speech was interrupted several times in an overcrowded Sanders...
...election day approached, the guerrillas sought to disrupt the balloting, which leftist parties boycotted, by promising death to voters. Warned one rebel slogan: "Vote in the morning, die in the afternoon." Even before election day dawned clear and stiflingly hot on March 28, the guerrillas launched scattered attacks in several of the capital's northern suburbs and a number of provincial towns. In the eastern city of Usulutan, nearly 500 insurgents made the sharpest assault of the day. Before retreating they managed to prevent local officials from opening the polls...
...trying to prolong the issue by releasing evidence of his previous version, would serve no real purpose. At week's end the Administration released an eleven-page report charging that Cuba has increased its arms shipments to Salvadoran rebels in the past few months in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming election of a constituent assembly there. The weapons flow has "reached unprecedented peaks," the report said, since guerrilla leaders met with Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana in December. No intelligence data were released to support the charges...
...clearly based on leaks-that appeared in the U.S. press last week. In a piece by Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) and Patrick Tyler, the Washington Post said that President Reagan had approved a $19 million CIA plan to create a 500-member paramilitary force of Latin Americans to "disrupt" the Nicaraguan regime. The next day, the New York Times said that the U.S. was providing the money for covert support of individuals and organizations within Nicaragua, in an attempt to bolster that country's moderate elements, but had rejected any paramilitary action. The Times story quoted Inman...