Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political ineptitude and state-approved brutality that badly eroded the once lustrous prospects of a country that Explorer Henry Stanley called "the pearl of Africa." Uganda probably reached its nadir under the infamous Idi Amin Dada, who seized power in 1971 from the country's first leader, Apollo Milton Obote. During Amin's eight-year reign of terror, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 people were killed, and thousands more were forced into exile. After the dictator expelled the country's Asians, who traditionally controlled Ugandan commerce, the economy collapsed. Production of coffee alone, the country's primary source...
After deliberating for 30 hours, the jury last week convicted the five defendants: Joseph J. Aiuppa, 78, the Chicago Mafia boss; John Cerone, 71, Joseph Lombardo, 57, and Angelo LaPietra, 65, all of Chicago; and Cleveland Mob Leader Milton J. Rockman, 71. Each could be sentenced to 40 years in jail. Chicago FBI Chief Edward Hegarty called the convictions of the Midwest's top mobsters, along with earlier guilty pleas of Mob leaders in Kansas City, "the most significant prosecution of organized-crime figures in the history of the U.S." An even bigger Mafia trial is to start next March...
...pass, no-play rule for student athletes. Now he has given Texas letters an incalculable shot in the arm by presenting the University of Texas at Austin with a rare early English literary collection of 1,105 volumes and 250 manuscript groups. Included are first editions of Donne, Milton and Shakespeare, as well as the first book ever printed in English, Raoul Le Fevre's The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. In the largest such sale ever, Perot, 55, paid $15 million to obtain the books from the private Pforzheimer collection in New York City, and the university...
Still another Ugandan government seemed on the verge of falling last week. Only six months after a coup had toppled the corrupt and bloody regime of President Apollo Milton Obote, an estimated 3,000 rebels from a group that calls itself the National Resistance Army moved into the capital, Kampala, and quickly captured a major portion of the city. Some government troops retreated to the suburbs, but others stayed behind, fighting back with heavy mortar barrages. In the exchange of gunfire, both a hospital and a church were hit. At least 20 people were reported killed or wounded...
...Conference last week in Phoenix, which was billed by its organizers as "probably the largest gathering ever devoted to the practice of psychotherapy." Part trade show, part ecumenical conference, the meeting drew participants from 29 countries and dozens of therapeutic splinter groups. Jeffrey Zeig, the director of Phoenix's Milton H. Erickson Foundation, which helped sponsor the event, counted 15 major schools of thought on the program, plus Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist who does not believe that mental illness even exists...