Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must be a sad fate for any upstanding American corporation first to be harried into making large (and illegal) political donations and then to be forced to confess on threat of prosecution. Nonetheless, Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox has a little list of these corporate donors, all of which could face fines of up to $5,000, for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Republican national campaign...
...British Empire. In return, as Churchill has written in his memoirs, he agreed to recognize the Soviet Union's sphere of dominant influence in Eastern Europe. What Churchill did not disclose in his memoirs was the earthy dialogue between him and Stalin while they decided the fate of tens of millions of people...
...fate of the press alone is a serious matter. One of the hemisphere's oldest papers, the conservative El Diario del Marion, was the last independent to be forced under. The revolution's heros engaged in suppression found El Diario difficult to sink because it had a reputation for responsibility and generous employment terms for its workers. Miguel Quevedo, whom Fidel of the Fifties embraced, and Francesco Pares, the editors of Bohemia Libre, were forced to publish in exile for a refugee readership. Apparently something about the name was appealing because the government now publishes a Bohemia Libre also...
...culture. Like Jews, they value education very highly, and, despire their hardships, they can boast of 64,000 university graduates--only 3,000 less than Israel. It is one of the tragic ironies of history that Jewish nationalists--with the help of the Western colonial powers--inflicted the very fate on the Palestinian people they hoped to escape by establishing a jewish state in the Middle East...
...sales. The memory of the last great boycott is their recurring nightmare. If the grocers find their customers turning away, the Delano and Fresno growers won't be so fast to conspire with the Teamsters when their UFW contracts expire. To be stuck with a worthless crop is a fate even worse then negotiating with a worker-controlled union...