Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karefa-Smart commuted from New York to sessions of Parliament four times a year until 1965, when new coups forced him to cut off all political contact with Sierra Leone. For the next five years, he served in Geneva as assistant director general of the World Health Organization, but continued...
There was no peace waiting for him in Sierra Leone. Stevens saw his return as a political threat--the people might sweep this old but not aging hero, who had negotiated Sierra Leone's independence, back into office. He declared a state of emergency, and, in October, 1970, ordered his...
So he just sat, marking the days with a piece of charcoal smuggled from the kitchen by a sympathetic trustee. He suspects now that Stevens hoped he would go insane. If so, Stevens gave up. Karefa-Smart was released, again without ceremony. He only had time to count the number...
Still, there's really no good reason for headlines about the transcripts' "epic story" or for the Judiciary Committee to pretend that they are a more significant document than, say, the Pentagon Papers. But then, Congress has been moving closer to Nixon's way of looking at things for awhile...
After presiding over the Senate for four years as Vice President, Hubert Humphrey took on a real circus. Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey variety. In red sequined coat and black stovepipe hat ("I won't throw it into the ring, and that's the first time I've...