Word: nonpersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he died in 1971, Nikita Khrushchev was officially a nonperson. Despite his eleven years as Soviet party chief, he was denied the usual honors of burial at the Kremlin Wall and was instead allotted a plot in the far corner of the Novodyevichy Cemetery, Moscow's second-ranking burial ground. The newspapers that had once headlined his speeches identified him in his death notice only as a "pensioner of the state...
...expected that these machinations will be used again by Soviet propaganda in the present campaign to falsify my past and to discredit me. After my expulsion, I was officially declared to be a nonperson. Nonetheless, the KGB in no way has reduced its activity against me and my friends...
...spirit of near-desperation, Jobert, who recently complained that the superpowers had treated Europe like a "nonperson" in the Middle East negotiations, last month suggested a conference between the Arabs and the Europeans, without American or Russian participation. The Arabs, however, have not yet responded...
Today the Algerians minimize Fanon's role in their victory. They have all but made him a nonperson in the land he struggled for. Yet his early and passionate assertion that black culture is beautiful, as well as his later preaching that the oppressed can heal their souls through the cathartic effect of revolutionary violence, posthumously turned Fanon into a hero for some white radical theorists and some American blacks...
...their second child, drives 340 miles each day to see him for one hour. Says Nonie: "He's bearing up well under the circumstances, but for a man as active as Peter, the routine is boring him to death." Back in the capital, he has already become a nonperson. Local newspapers and the government broadcasting system are forbidden to discuss his case or even mention his name...