Word: fought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their way to teach writing, one group of young brigadistas meet an old brigadista--one who had fought alongside Augusto Cesar Sandino in the late '20s and early '30s, one who had fought actual Yanquis and not just the products of our arms industry. The youngsters are fascinated, the toothless old man only too happy to answer questions like, "What did you do with the Yanquis when you caught them?" ("We let them go without their ears," he grins). You can either be amazed by the power of tyrants to hold out against suffering people, or the power of long...
Peace activists set about doing just that last week at Veterans Day teach-ins on 148 campuses across the country. The convocations were organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists (U.C.S.), a group that for twelve years has fought for safeguards in the atomic-power industry and has now turned its efforts to the crusade against the nuclear arms race. Co-sponsors as diverse as the National Council of Churches, the Council on Economic Priorities, and Physicians for Social Responsibility helped attract large audiences for speakers such as former SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke, former Tehran Hostage Moorhead Kennedy, and Democratic...
...negotiate arms agreements with the Soviets. As he said at Cornell: "The U.S. must go back to the bargaining table and offer a challenge to the Soviets to reduce nuclear weapons. If not, we entrust our survival to leaders who believe that a limited nuclear war can be fought and won, and who might act on that belief...
...Hispanic (vs. 44% white and 17% black). It is estimated that by 1985 the Latins will become a majority in Dade, outnumbering non-Latin whites 43% to 42%. The Latin influence is so strong that the mayoral run-off election in Miami last week was a hard-fought battle between two Hispanics, Puerto Rican-born Incumbent Maurice Ferré and Challenger Manolo Reboso, a Cuban-born former city commissioner. Ferré was re-elected for a fifth two-year term...
Across the sprawling complex of fields by the Bowl, the Crimson and the Elis fought it out in the tradition of their noble rivalry. But one eight-year-old bystander saw the whole affair more simply: "I'm just rooting for the guys...