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...second term into what Kissinger describes as "a time of upheaval without precedent in this century." Because of Watergate, he adds, "a President fresh from the second largest electoral victory in our history was unseated in a revolution that his own actions had triggered and his conduct could not quell...
...Politics has become so much a part of my thinking and feeling that it is difficult to say where politics ends and my music begins." In 1968 the premiere of his oratorio The Raft of the Medusa had to be aborted when Hamburg police burst into the theater to quell a political demonstration; the work is dedicated to Che Guevara. Henze premiered his Sixth Symphony in Cuba in 1969, quoting a National Liberation Front song in the score...
Playing perhaps as well as he has for two years, the 33-year-old Khan used every bit of his accumulated court savvy to quell defending champion Desaulniers in the final, 4-15, 15-13, 15-14, 15-18, 15-11. But it wasn't easy...
Many experts doubt that the Soviets would intervene in Poland in a way that would invite a pitched battle; units are more likely to be called in by the Polish government to help quell growing disturbances. But if the crisis were to escalate into a full-scale invasion, analysts believe that the Poles would fight, and fight well, even though they are outgunned and outnumbered. There are 57 Warsaw Pact divisions on Poland's borders and two more within the country, vs. the 15 Polish army divisions. The Soviets, moreover, could quickly cut off the Polish military...
Gossage came on in the eighth to quell an Oakland uprising and retired the last five batters to pick up the save...