Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This group of strangers sat, listened, talked and related, but related completely without violence. Everyone did "their own thing," without causing a ruckus. We proved that under difficult circumstances we don't need to fight to rid ourselves of aggressive feelings; no, instead we try to enjoy life through music and each other. My peers are indeed beautiful people...
...signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti-government underground outfit, and the October 8 Revolutionary Movement, or MR-8, a Castroite group that takes its name from the date of Che Guevara's 1967 capture in Bolivia. In return for Elbrick's life, the terrorists made two imaginative demands, to which the government hastily agreed. First, Brazilian newspapers, radio and TV stations had to run a tiresome, 950-word anti-government "manifesto." Second, the government was forced to release 15 political prisoners and fly them to sanctuary in Mexico...
...risking rumors on the record in order to account for his conduct clearly once and for all. Now he has for a time formalized his silence and only postponed his day of reckoning with the public-a day that must surely come if he intends to remain in public life...
...Conditions. Many, living in isolated hollows miles from the main road, exist on no earned incomes at all, under conditions that make life in an urban ghetto seem almost luxurious by comparison. Their houses are made of tarpaper or unseasoned wood, their food consists of what they can shoot, trap or buy with Government food stamps...
...Minh's life was dedicated to the creation of a unified Viet Nam, free from foreign control, and the 19 million people of his tortured land suffered mightily from his total devotion to that vision. Even so, they affectionately knew him as "Bac Ho" (Uncle Ho). So did many in the South. No national leader alive today has stood so stubbornly for so long before the enemy's guns. His death will have inevitable and far-reaching repercussions in North Viet Nam, in Asia and beyond...