Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is a time when family quarrels are forgotten," said Carter in his welcoming speech. Suddenly, a woman standing among reporters about 20 ft. from the podium began waving a copy of Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book and screaming, "Teng is a murderer!" No sooner had U.S...
A scholarly man of 69, his face blemished by a large purple birthmark, Fang is not a scientist. He was an editor at China's leading publishing house, the Shanghai-based Commercial Press, before joining the Communist Party in 1936. A military commissar during World War II, he worked...
The chartered Air France 747 circled over the city and past the nearby Elburz Mountains three times before settling down gently on the tarmac of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. As aides and reporters milled about, the frail old man, wearing a black turban and ankle-length robes, stepped out of...
Audacity was clearly needed to defuse the tension between Bakhtiar and his opponents. Khomeini was originally scheduled to fly to Tehran last Friday, the Muslim day of prayer; 48 hours before Khomeini's departure, Bakhtiar's nervous government reversed its earlier decision to let him return. Soldiers moved...
But Khomeini's voice would certainly be heard, since his words and his impressive organization have kept a revolution aflame. At once simple and complex, that organization made impressive use of tape recorders and telephones to disseminate a political message suffused with an ancient spirituality. From the start of...