Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I't's civil war. Somoza has to go." The teen-age girl shouting anti-government slogans in the battered town of Masaya last week hardly looked like a revolutionary. But, as upon countless others, revolution had been thrust upon her. An overwhelming number of Nicaragua's...
Ominously for the Somoza regime, the Sandinistas were not the only force that had risen. As soon as the guerrillas' well-planned attacks began, they were spontaneously joined by other youths-"los muchachos" (the boys), townspeople called them-and even by older men and women wielding their own hunting...
The concept of martial law has meaning only when applied to a country that pays at least theoretical respect to the protection of human rights. In China there is no martial law, but neither does the populace enjoy most of the rights that could be jeopardized by martial law. In...
Enormous quantities of CO2 have been belched into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. But only recently has the increase become a cause of concern. In the past 20 years, it rose almost as much as it did in the century before. These measurements, made by the...
"I really was reached," he said, "because it was an in-depth commentary revealing some nagging contradictions in what we like to call a sexual revolution or a more carefree, problem-free era."