Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used General Chen's mutiny as an excuse to unleash the Red Guards against "capitalist roaders" within the military. Commanders were dragged from their camps and publicly humiliated until Mao ordered a halt to the attacks. Belatedly, he realized that the army was the only stable institution in a nation threatened with anarchy...
...news of the assault comes less than two months after the entire nation was shocked by the gang rape and near fatal beating of a white jogger in New York City's Central Park, allegedly by six black and Hispanic youths. Taken together, the two cases brutally demonstrate that sexual violence by adolescents transcends racial and class lines. Such attacks are now increasingly common across the U.S. According to the FBI, the number of arrests for rape committed by boys 18 years old or younger rose by 14.6% between...
...NATION: As Jim Wright's fate is sealed, the Capitol Hill ethics purge also topples majority whip Tony Coelho...
...come to an end. Assembled in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses were the delegates to the Soviet Union's brand-new Congress of People's Deputies, a forum where doctrine could be questioned, where the unexpected could happen, and where the unmentionable could be spoken for all the nation to hear...
Most observers credit Horner with making the school one of the nation's foremost research institutions for women by building up Radcliffe's scholarly programs--the Bunting Institute, the Murray Research Center and the Schlesinger Library...