Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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24. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, 37. "Down with dope! Up with hope!" shouts Jackson to a crowd of 10,000 enthusiastic teenagers. His mission is to inspire ghetto youngsters to change their lives by studying hard. A former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson has spent the...
Whatever Sandino's dreams, the question now was whether Nicaragua's revolution would give birth to a mildly leftist but democratic society or a militant Marxist state. The five-member junta that rules the country has so far followed a middle-of-the-road course, promising elections, an...
That empire grew from a modest beginning. When he seized power in 1933, Tacho's father, Anastasio Somoza García, had only a near bankrupt coffee farm to his name. Little by little, he added to his holdings. If he saw a plantation he admired, for example, Somoza...
The Premier's aides did not attempt to mask their concern that his condition could worsen and conceivably even force his resignation. In a swirl of rumors, Israelis asked themselves if his health might not already be perhaps more impaired than his doctors would admit.
The proposal was acceptable to Egypt, but not to the Israeli Cabinet. It accused the U.S., in effect, of reneging on President Carter's written pledge last March to provide an "acceptable alternative multinational force" to replace the U.N. Emergency Force, if necessary. The Israeli opposition to the plan...