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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn back the moves. In Peru, an IMF-ordered 20-per-cent hike in gasoline costs on January 3, 1979, led to a general strike and an attendant repressive response. Hundreds were arrested for leading the strike; seven magazines were closed down; police were ordered to shoot troublemakers on sight; the Constitution was suspended...
...despair. When they spilled out of the C-130s they were ordered to line up like soldiers and give their name, rank and serial number. The men quietly obeyed their orders, eyes showing profound disappointment. But, the commander noticed, no chins were down. That, he thought, is a beautiful sight in the world of those who go to fight...
...Petersburg was driving with three companions just behind the doomed vehicles. Said he: "As I came to the top of the bridge, I saw metal sticking out of the edge. I applied mY brakes immediately and stopped about two feet from going in. My God, what a horrible sight!" Said Jay Hirsch, another eyewitness: "The first thing I did was look for heads bobbing in the water. There were none...
...began in 1953 on the third floor of the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House and for the most part out of sight and sound of the President. The first National Security Adviser was a kind of aide-de-camp to Ike, more clerk than policy planner. But the next thing we knew, he had moved across the street and was in the White House basement, close to the President's communications center, a lope or two from John Kennedy's ear. When we woke up a few months after Nixon's Inaugural...
...almost occult narration of Ted Tice's inspection of the Wasteland of Hiroshima exemplifies this style. The scientist's fate "became equivocal and ceased to make quite clear if he would win or fail" as he toured the atomic ruins, she writes, while his "imagination stalked ahead, aghast, among sight soon to be outdone." Shedding light on the bizarre truth of our inner, irrational metaphors, she presents this vision of a city unnaturally demolished to expose the contours of the earth, leaving only "a single monument, defabricated girders of an abolished dome, presiding like a vacant cranium or a hollowing...