Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind-control techniques offered rational explanations of how humans can be conditioned to commit such irrational acts (see box). Yet the stories told by those who survived were both fearsomely fascinating and ultimately inexplicable. How could such idealistic, if naive, people set out to build an idyllic haven from modern society's many pressures and turn it into a hellish colony of death? This is how the Jonestown dream turned into a nightmare...
Whoever follows will lead a fairly healthy nation, but he will confront serious problems as well. Boumedienne used oil revenues and international loans to build a modern society and revive the flagging Arab culture he had come from. A socialist and revolutionary ideologue who turned to Moscow for military assistance, the pragmatic Boumedienne also looked west for markets and technology. The U.S. has become Algeria's principal trading partner, buying oil and, more important, natural gas, while providing factories for consumer goods and training to teach Algerians to run the new facilities...
Gold said he would like to study either modern Chinese literature or social change in China in the period after the establishment of the People's Republic...
Gold's interest in modern Chinese affairs was stimulated when he toured the U.S. as a translator with two delegations from the People's Republic in the summer of 1974, he said...
Gold said he would like to study either modern Chinese literature or social change in China in the period after the establishment of the People's Republic...