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Scheduled to take office as Congressman for the Eighth District on January 6, Kennedy plans to join his other newly elected members of the House of Representatives for an intensive course in Capitol Hill know-how at the Kennedy School of Government this week. For three days the newly elected congressmen will attend lectures by K-School experts and other political pundits from across the country...
...babe. All this domestic flak will die down, the press will retreat when the PR shock troops open fire. But the Freedom Fight is in peril, and every true American must join battle...
...meeting, Ramos feared that a coup was under way. He immediately summoned the chiefs of the armed services and dispatched troops to defend the palace, the Assembly building and strategic TV and radio installations. That evening, one RAM officer reportedly called Ramos and urged him to join the revolt. When the Chief of Staff refused, the officer is said to have replied, "Then we'll go it alone." Later that night, as Enrile was attending a meeting of former Batasang members, six truckloads of troops, presumably under orders from Ramos, surrounded the area while another contingent went to Camp Aguinaldo...
Pasternak declined to join the chorus. "What I saw could not be expressed in words," Russia's greatest modern poet recalled in an unpublished memoir. "There was such inhuman, unimaginable misery, such a terrible disaster, that it began to seem almost abstract, it would not fit within the bounds of consciousness. I fell ill. For an entire year I could not write." What he had glimpsed was the consequences of Stalin's war against his country's peasantry, otherwise known as the collectivization of agriculture. Between 1929 and 1934, 20 million family farms had disappeared. So had the kulaks...
...sound of gunfire erupted from the back of the plane. A group of Basques had annexed the territory surrounding the lavatories and refused to let anyone through unless they admitted that "we're Number 1." As we hurried back to join the fray--we both had a few drinks in us waiting to be processed--Tim told me about Lt. Col. North...