Word: extinctionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others were convinced he was a would-be dictator (or fascist, as the cheaper.cry had it). His career belies the charge. Once, in conversation with Novelist Andre Malraux, his wartime propaganda chief, De Gaulle declared: "One usually ascribes to me one quality: intelligence. Then how can one suppose that I...
Does it matter to the uncommitted people of the world that they are faced with extinction at the hands of a clean bomb or a dirty bomb? Also what happens if Dr. Teller does develop a clean bomb? Will we throw out all of the dirty ones?
Some 10,000 government troops converged on the battered remnants of four rebel battalions defending their capital, Bukittinggi. The two-month-old rebellion, which aimed at the overthrow of President Sukarno and his Red-encouraged experiment in "guided" democracy, seemed at the point of extinction.
The best-known American in the picturesque kingdom of Thailand is a greying, well-tanned onetime architect named James H. W. Thompson, 52, who has almost singlehanded saved Thailand's vital silk industry from extinction. When Jim Thompson arrived in Thailand in 1945 as an OSS officer (and stayed...
Two weeks ago, after prolonged secret negotiations with the leaders of the chief opposition parties. Karamanlis proposed a new electoral law that would reduce the number of Deputies in the Greek Chamber from 300 to 250, modify the unwieldy proportional-representation provisions of the existing law. Deputies from small parties...