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...Connor said a law such as Nuclear Free Cambridge could wipe out Draper and discourage new high-tech companies from locating here Innumerable research projects at MIT and Harvard would suffer. The proposal could ban research even on how to make weapons safer, he added...
...armed forces during the early part of this century. Other successful films like The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and The Last Wave were classified as uniquely Australian because they delved into the racial tensions between the white settlers of the continent and the Black Aborigines whom they tried to wipe...
...encampment, several thousand men and women who promised to give new government to the China they had conquered. For two years, they had been wandering the arid northlands, pursued by Chiang Kai-shek's divisions. But Mao had raced his own best troops northeast to Manchuria to encircle and wipe out Chiang's forces. Next he deployed his other armies, first to wipe out the last of Chiang's elite divisions south of the Yellow River, then to seize Peking...
...commander in chief of the revolution's armies, died. Then came the Tangshan earthquake ? and in Chinese folklore great earthquakes always foretell the fall of a dynasty. Finally, on Sept. 9, Mao died, and it was time for someone to move. Either the Gang of Four would wipe out the last resistance and Jiang Qing would reign, or the veterans of the revolution would wipe out the Gang of Four. A classic case of "us" or "them," as tight as the events of 9 Thermidor, 1794, when it became a matter of life or death for members of France...
...Aylwin, only moments before he was arrested by police. When it was over, an estimated 600 people had been taken into custody and scores had been injured, among them some of the nation's leading opposition politicians. Said a police colonel: "We received orders to obliterate everything, to wipe them...