Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than the others, Anderson challenges the guards, although for some reason he is beaten less frequently. He goes on a seven-day hunger strike when they suddenly ban the radio and the occasional copies of the International Herald Tribune. He does not know it, but the news blackout is imposed so he will not learn of the deaths of his father and brother back in the U.S. He does find out, however, that since his kidnaping his second daughter, Sulome, has been born...
...think you in America have quite enough experience in this area, so you must know its methods better than I do. The Mafia in the Soviet Union is a long way from being as strong and influential as it is in America. Our Mafia does not have as much experience as yours...
...people are essential. We have to sacrifice ourselves. I don't consider this a slogan. Public interests are higher than personal interests. In a month I may be elected to the Congress of People's Deputies and would therefore no longer be a minister. Today I don't know where I will find work. This doesn't bother me. Things are easier in your country. A political figure may have his own farm, some capital, a factory -- and he is not afraid to abandon all this for a while -- and not even lose it, if he is elected...
During his eight years as Vice President, whenever Bush wanted to know what was really going on in Congress or California or Cairo, the former CIA director turned not only to his staff but also to an extensive network of friends, former aides and political allies, who would sometimes report back through special phone and mail channels that skirted his official staff. A former senior Bush staffer says he was "flabbergasted" to learn that the boss "had his own cutouts, just like a spymaster...
Last week students at Howard University in Washington, perhaps the nation's most distinguished black college, let Atwater know that the past had not been forgotten. Outraged by his appointment in January to the Howard board of trustees, more than 200 students seized the school's main administration building in the most intense burst of campus unrest since the Viet Nam War. Hundreds of other students demonstrated outside, chanting slogans and demanding Atwater's resignation from the board. Four days after the rebellion began, with riot police threatening to storm the building, Atwater stepped down. In a Washington Post piece...