Word: pacificism
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Apparently it was The Autobiography of Malcolm X that inspired Walker to convert to Islam. He talked with his parents about his plans. Frank Lindh, now a lawyer with Pacific Gas & Electric, was accepting. Marilyn Walker had reservations. "She was concerned," says Marilyn's friend Stephanie Hendricks. "You have a...
So now the military wants to assign a single four-star officer to protect American territory, just as four others are responsible for the European, Central, Pacific and Southern commands. These regional commanders in chief are called CINCs. Although CINCs have been around since World War II, there's never...
Peace is exactly the image Vietnam has been itching to capitalize on. After all, it's a country that in many people's minds is still indelibly linked to war. So in early October when foreign executives in a poll by the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy...
A Boeing MD-80 on its way from Mexico to San Francisco crashes into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 88 aboard. The reason? A critical part of the plane's tail-control mechanism snapped off, most likely because of wear and a lack of adequate lubrication.
By June 1942, seven months had passed since Pearl Harbor, and still no news from the Atlantic or Pacific theaters had fundamentally lifted our spirits or given us hope for a quick and decisive victory. The Japanese had destroyed much of our Pacific fleet, Jimmy Doolittle had inflicted only psychological...