Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These revolutionaries shared roughly similar origins: mostly from middle-class families, well educated, born before World War I. Their fathers were teachers or government officials (save for Le Duan), and in their formative years they learned at least distaste, more often hatred for the French colonial rulers. All spent months and years in prison and exile for their beliefs. Ho himself, when he returned to Viet Nam in February 1941, had been away from his native land for 30 years, and the name Ho Chi Minh was only the last in a bewildering list of pseudonyms. Born Nguyen That Thanh...
...collegiate, you might say. Add to this some medium-good rock music and the droning message that the young and clean must save the world from their dirty elders and you have the superficial non-appeal of Mother Earth...
Kinks. God Save the Kinks...
...drive both groups away, once again claiming the land to be his own, ultimate incorrigibility is aroused. Following the kid's weepy lead, the four turn their back on Culpepper, saying "Some things mean more than cattle." They protect the religious horde and take revenge on their insults. Everyone save the boy and the holy folk is killed. Then I walked out. I can't stand unearned happy endings...
...Ugandan citizenship, which has been arbitrarily revoked by Amin. They are now stateless. Britain has declined to consider restoring them to citizenship, and has referred their case to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. But there is growing concern whether any international body can act swiftly enough to save them from being further victimized...