Word: junes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some day soon, before the century is gone, the first week of June 1979 will go down in history as the beginning of the end of Communism throughout the world. I believe that the mortal blow has been struck by the visit to Poland of this true man of freedom, John Paul II [June...
With all of the trenches to hide our MX missiles [June 18], where are the trenches, shelters or caves to hide us in the event of nuclear war? Is anyone thinking about that...
German cowboy and Indian buffs may be more accurately informed about the American West than Americans are, as the young West Berliner claimed [June 18], but the American West lives on today in the form of the frontier myth-a very potent influence, for better or worse, on the American national character. Be our view of the Old West ever so phony, we are living...
...shrouded in mist, as the cops awaited the onslaught to come. "Wait til you see the whites of their eyes," advised one, grinning, continuing the lookout. Despite the battlefield small-talk and virtual siege-mentality that permeated the Shoreham, N.Y., nuclear power plant, June 3 was a day for handcuffs made of clear plastic rather than sharp metal, for mostly friendly rapport between arresters and arrestees that one demonstrator called "surreal," for a day of protest that mixed earnestness and euphoria but, except for one incident of dubious origin, excluded confrontation...
Actual coverage conformed closely to the plan. On June 4, for example, Poland's morning dailies all had virtually the same story of the Pope's arrival at the same place on the front page with the same photograph of the prelate meeting Party First Secretary Edward Gierek. But the scheme to assign Polish journalists to keep troublesome Western counterparts in line was evidently not used; though many of the Poles covering the Pope wrote little, there were no reports of overt propagandizing. Polish state television was not given specific instructions in the memo, but one cameraman admitted...