Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American foreign policy created the contras, a ragtag bunch of political-outs who seem to have more support in Miami than in Managua. The Sandinistas led a successful and legitimate revolution against a heinous dictatorship. Their government is recognized as sovereign by the majority of people in that country as...
The event will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famed journalist who covered both the Mexican Revolution and the 1917 Russian Revolution. Reed died in the Soviet Union in 1920 and is the only American buried in the Kremlin.
Reed, the subject of the movie "Reds," wrote the book "Ten Days that Shook the World," which Corliss Lamont '24 described as "the recognized eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution." Lamont, coordinator of the 16-member John Reed Centenary Committee, will serve as moderator of the symposium.
Shilts says he interviewed more than 900 people. He lists dates for eleven interviews with Dr. James Curran, head of the CDC's AIDS program. The most poignant passages recount the first stirrings, before doctors knew there was such a disease. Shilts suggests that the first non-African victim may...
Still, the delegates were not complacent. The theme of the annual conference was "Action for the Third Term," and there was much talk of finding ways to keep the Thatcher revolution from running out of steam. The Tories thus endorsed further cuts in taxes, tougher anticrime measures and new curbs...