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...Chief of Staff, Defense Minister and Premier, Lon Nol ended the 1,000-year-old Khmer monarchy by overthrowing Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 while he was out of the country. Although Lon Nol's republic was propped up by American military aid, it proved unpopular, corrupt and too weak to resist the forces of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who after seizing power killed an estimated one million Cambodians (out of 7.3 million). Shortly before Lon Nol fled to asylum in the U.S., he said, accurately, "If the other side took over, they would kill all the educated...
...about the health risks of the birth control pill are rampant. All this may help explain why, according to John Hopkins researchers, only about one in three sexually active American girls between ages 15 and 19 uses contraceptives at all. And many who do use them have a rather weak grasp of the methodology: one-quarter of the girls in the NORC survey said they were using birth control at the time they became pregnant...
...proletariat" meant that a tightly organized Communist Party was to be the exclusive dominating force in transforming society. Among the millions attracted by this prescription were two young Chinese, named Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaoping, who saw in it a way to change their country from a weak, backward state pushed around by foreign powers to a mighty modern nation. Deng has remained a model Leninist in the sense of countenancing no challenge to the Communist Party's role in leading society, even when portions of the party balk at carrying out his reforms...
...followed a curriculum that enabled him at 16 to enter a program providing an opportunity to work and study in France. Despite an anti-Western wave then simmering in China, Deng and many others of his generation jumped at the chance to go abroad. "We felt that China was weak, and we wanted to make it strong," he later told the New York Times. "We thought the way to do it was through modernization. So we went to the West to learn...
...Weak earnings have diluted the company's profit-sharing payments and hurt employee morale. Many pilots have left because they were dissatisfied with their pay and disliked being assigned extra jobs on the ground. Between 1984 and 1985, the number of pilots dropped from 1,100 to about 950. "We're having a family crisis," says Philip Rogers, a 727 captain who has stayed on. Burr says the remaining pilots are enough to fly the fleet, and new ones are being hired...