Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collection houses about 1000 works on sexual themes, many risque at the time of their publication but now considered tame. Most of the works, in fact, can be found in the general stacks--books like D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire and even the Kinsey report. The works of the self-styled Marquis de Sade, Honore de Balzac and William S. Burrough's Naked Lunch also take up space on the three rows of shelves that make up the "XR" collection...
State Attorney General John Arnold said as many as 650 protesters were arrested and taken in school buses to the Seabrook police station...
...NATO commander General John Galvin, on the other hand, maintains that nuclear arms are indispensable in keeping peace, especially in Europe...
...most of the week, contradictory signals emanated from a country whose secretive rulers prize political stability above all else. Perhaps the most curious sign involved the army. On Monday seven retired generals, including former Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, signed a letter to the party leadership demanding that the P.L.A. not be used to quell the uprising. "The army must absolutely not shoot the people," it read. Two days later, the military's Liberation Army Daily quoted a letter from the P.L.A. general staff (also dated Monday) urging troops to study carefully a speech by Li Peng denouncing the uprising...
...Cultural Revolution in 1966, the P.L.A. initially stood aloof. As the Red Guards ran amuck, Mao Zedong urged the military to challenge them -- but with rhetoric, not guns and bayonets. Some officers rebelled against what they felt was the ambiguity of their position. In Wuhan district, the military commander, General Chen Zaidao, was ordered to support the local Red Guard faction. He refused and seized as hostages three party officials who were sent to confront him. Premier Zhou Enlai had to negotiate their release...