Word: upon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Filipina from Negros Occidental, I can personally attest to the outrageous atrocities committed by the Marcos regime upon the Filipino people. Marked by graft and corruption, the terror imposed by Marcos will continue unobstructed until the U.S. decides to step in and put its "human rights" policy into practice...
...want to encourage Harvard students and administrators to write letters to the mayor's office and community leaders and demand that they work upon racial relations in Boston," Green said...
...bridges to dissident students and professors, the acid exchanges with South Viet Nam's leaders as a peace treaty drew near, and the angry threat from Nixon that finally brought Saigon around. The memoirs describe Kissinger's painful falling-out with Nixon and his decision-never acted upon because Watergate intervened-to resign from public office some time...
Nixon then and there decided upon the mining of North Vietnamese ports. He would speak to the nation on Monday evening, May 8. He would convene the National Security Council on Monday morning...
Perhaps the most bitterly disputed episode of a bitterly disputed war is the decline and fall of Cambodia. In March, with Prince Sihanouk traveling in France, anti-Vietnamese riots began to erupt across Cambodia. Prime Minister Lon Nol and Deputy Prime Minister Sirik Matak ousted Sihanouk, who there upon took refuge in Peking and turned against the U.S. Kissinger 's critics argue that the U.S. engineered Sihanouk's downfall and later, by attacking the North Vietnamese sanctuaries, caused the war to engulf all of Cambodia and to ensure victory for the Communist Khmer Rouge. Kissinger maintains with much...