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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What soon became clear, though, was that Boumedienne and fellow conspirators did not depose President Ahmed ben Bella on ideological policy grounds, but to save their own jobs...
Gunpoint Cosigner. Guzmán admits that Villa's habits were brutal: he shot one man for pushing his horse, ordered another executed because "I saw in his glance that he waa a traitor," once lined up 60 enemy prisoners in rows of three "to save ammunition by killing three with one shot." To show his disgust for the dandified "chocolate drinkers" who, he feared, were taking over the revolution, he ordered a prisoner shot in front of his luncheon guests. Villa's only interest, according to Guzman, was to preserve the revolution for the poor-with whom...
...G.O.P. member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee: "We may be dangerously close to ending any Republican support of our present Viet Nam policy, because the American people do not know how far the Administration is prepared to go with large-scale use of ground forces in order to save face in Viet Nam." More importantly, said Laird, the G.O.P. might withdraw its backing of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam if the President's real objective turned out to be merely "some sort of negotiated settlement that would include Communist elements in a coalition government...
...court-induced legislative reapportionment, two of those same Negroes were back-this time as duly elected state representatives. And they brought with them six others. These, along with two Negroes already serving in the senate, gave Georgia more Negroes in its legislature than any other state in the Union save Pennsylvania, also with ten, and Michigan, with eleven...
...Stormy Petrel became the battle anthem of the revolution, and soon he was hip deep in politics: setting up capitalist pigeons for Lenin to pluck, polemicizing both for and against the Bolsheviks. During the Leninist purges following the October Revolution, Gorky used his special relationship with Lenin to save many writers' lives. Finally breaking with the Bolsheviks, he exiled himself in Sorrento. There, in a drafty villa with a fine view of Vesuvius, he swilled coffee-and-raw-eggs and completed his best work: the autobiographical accounts of his early life and his reminiscences of Tolstoy and Chekhov...