Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stop accepting gifts of liquor or football tickets for their services, limited his top aides' salaries to $36,000 ($1,500 less than the legal maximum) and instructed them to work on some state holidays. His personal staff is young and dedicated, and was quickly nicknamed the James Gang...
...love waves" to his political opponents. Actually he ran a hateful little dictatorship. According to Bishop, Gairy was several times re-elected in blatantly rigged contests that included the registration of thousands of dead Grenadians and the bribing of living ones. Chief enforcer of his regime was the Mongoose Gang, a ferocious 30-man secret-police unit that he had recruited in the Grenadian underworld. He also attracted crooks and fugitives from justice from abroad, like Eugene Zeek, whom the FBI is seeking for allegedly cashing $1 million in bad checks...
...unthinkable. Now, with the government's blessing, China's musicians are seeking guidance with a hunger and intensity that is daunting. Like everyone else whose work involved the intellect or the arts, the nation's musicians saw their spiritual life erased for ten years by the Gang of Four. From 1966 to 1976 Chinese orchestras were allowed to play only a few granitic compositions; conservatories became inactive...
...raging in Rhodesia, however, that convention has been shattered. Many of the 40 or so foreign correspondents who regularly cover the country carry weapons on the job at least some of the time. The journalists are so often armed that visiting colleagues have disdainfully nicknamed them the "Bang Gang...
This reactionary collusion between Washington and Peking has long been on the drawing boards of U.S. foreign policy makers. While Mao-loyalists contend that China's alliance with the U.S. was architected by "capitalist roader" Teng, following Mao's death and the purge of the "gang of four", this is simply not the case. It was Mao himself who feted Richard Nixon in Peking in 1971 as the American "Christmas bombings" ravaged Hanoi. Mao set the stage for Teng to receive Treasury Secretary Blumenthal as Chinese troops attacked the city of Lang...