Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alongside Dr. Benjamin M. Spock, Hughes co-chaired the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), a group worried about the massive worldwide nuclear arms buildup during the Cold War and nuclear weapon testing...
Hoffmann, who called Hughes a beatnik, said Hughes was one of the few Harvard professors to publicly object to the war...
Hughes' action against the war was deliberate and well-thought-out, according to Hoffman; for example, he did not support the students' actions of disrupting classes...
...Union leaders in Finland Friday ? the E.U. urged Moscow to halt its offensive and negotiate, but Putin stuck to his guns. Hardly surprising, since the Chechnya campaign is the neophyte prime minister?s prime opportunity to make a name for himself ahead of next year?s presidential election. "The war against Chechen terrorism is Putin?s election platform," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "And for the moment, it?s doing just what Kremlin image-makers had hoped ? boosting Putin?s macho image and his popularity in the polls...
...Grozny, and the missile attack fits their pattern of using air and artillery strikes to drive out civilians ahead of sending in ground troops. "Russia?s triumphal procession through Chechnya's sparsely populated northern plains has ended," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The real war, for the towns and villages of the rugged south, has begun, and its bloodiness could soon eclipse even the Grozny marketplace attack...