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...music I play is music the Mardi Gras Indians do. The guys that did this thing-Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim-died off. There was nobody to keep it alive except the few guys who worked with them. Me, James Booker, Huey Piano Smith, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint. I guess I would call my own style barrelhouse with blues and jazz mixtures. Rock 'n' roll...
...they have since World War Two, the two superpowers led the way since last June in the oppressive intervention department. Washington continued its frantic efforts to prop up an illusory domino in El Salvador, ignoring past lessons that war torn nations need peace and non-interference, not American guns. Moscow still has 100,000 heavily armed campers bunking down in Kabul...
...serve as a basis of discussion between the U.S. and Nicaragua. It was a welcome departure from previous policy towards the Central American country. Since the Marxist-oriented Sandinist government replaced Anastasio Somoza's strong-arm dictatorship, Reagan has viewed Nicaragua as the exemplary victim of a new domino theory. Because the Sandinistas proposed Marxist reforms, the Administration reasoned, they were automatically part of the mysterious and sinister Soviet-Cuban network of international terrorism and revolution. The moment a Marxist government gained control of Nicaragua, the analysis continued, the Soviets had successfully stirred up a new whirlpool of undemocratic instability...
...there are not enough concentrators, the BSA organizers said they fear a "domino theory" could threaten the whole department. The administration may reason, "if there aren't many student concentrators in Afro-Am, they don't need many professors, and therefore there isn't much need for Afro-Am," Williams said...
Without U.S. guns and money, the Salvadoran army might well be defeated by the guerrillas. The victorious leftists could support Marxist insurgencies in neighboring Guatemala and throughout the region. In short, Washington's worst domino-theory nightmares could result from the very elections on which the U.S. had pinned its best hopes. Said Congressman Stephen Solarz: "If a government of the right is formed, it will indeed turn out that the elections paved the road to disaster...