Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haiti for example, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is under the iron heel of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier Despite the accounts of torture from refugees, religious groups. Amnesty International and others, the U.S. has stepped up arms sales to Duvalier. Thousands have fled Duvalier's reign of terror, hoping to return to a free country some day. Duvalier, with American guns and dollars, has shown he will commit the most brazen crimes to prevent that day from coming...
...races will be run. Ever since first claiming the Cup, the races have been run solely on the whims of the NYYC, which made up the rules as it went along. The actual races were officiated by an international race committee, but the yacht club had free reign in choosing where and when to hold them and in what kind of boats...
...died. Then came the Tangshan earthquake ? and in Chinese folklore great earthquakes always foretell the fall of a dynasty. Finally, on Sept. 9, Mao died, and it was time for someone to move. Either the Gang of Four would wipe out the last resistance and Jiang Qing would reign, or the veterans of the revolution would wipe out the Gang of Four. A classic case of "us" or "them," as tight as the events of 9 Thermidor, 1794, when it became a matter of life or death for members of France's revolutionary Convention: Robespierre would get them...
Could terror reign once more? No, said Hu ? and he was firm. A modern country needs intellectuals, scientists. This was Deng's view too. How could modernization proceed without thinking people? I persisted: Could it happen again? No, he answered. Not because of the new constitution. Not because of the transfer of power. No ? because someone who puts his finger on a hot stove gets burned and will not put his finger there again. The terror, Hu assured me, could not return because the people now would not accept...
...delegates cheered the speeches, the man responsible for keeping N.B.C.U.S.A. aloof from the 1960s demonstrations sat impassively on the platform, ignoring both the rhetoric and the reaction. In September 1982, after a reign of 29 years, the Rev. Joseph H. Jackson had been deposed as president of N.B.C.U.S.A. Jackson's long rule was criticized last week by the man who replaced him in office: the Rev. T.J. (for Theodore Judson) Jemison, 63, who also told the gathering, "We must permit our convention to become program-centered rather than personality-centered. We must be ready to step aside...