Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just concluded when an inmate leaped onto the stage and launched into an angry speech denouncing the injustice of the prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within minutes he and the guards were overpowered. The riot...
...Charles U. Daly, Vice President for Community Affairs, commented philosophically on the administration's decision to close down the wine sellers, "I wonder what students will do now that they can't sell wine or condoms...
...colorless bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil war, the Soviets began insisting that he be replaced by a three-man "troika." They dropped that demand only when they got the kind of neutral they wanted: U Thant...
...nothing about the India-Pakistan crisis, and of continually criticizing the U.S. role in Viet Nam. "Look, no one can expect a guy to be totally neutral -he'd have to be inanimate," says one such critic. "But he certainly can be impartial, and that possibility altogether escaped U Thant...
...coin to the police. But FBI agents did not bag Abel until four years later, when an underling defected and turned him in. He admitted only that he had entered the U.S. illegally, but he was convicted and sentenced to 30 years. Four years later he was exchanged for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. Though most spies retire in anonymity, Abel received public honors...