Word: reconstruction
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...have enabled an almost complete archeological prospectus of the city to be advanced. The implications of this prodigious feat are numerous. On the basis of new dating, the time phases of occupation and their relation to one another can be more accurately projected. Significantly, it is now possible to reconstruct what earliest Winchester looked like and how it grew throughout its history. The goal of the excavations is the publication of a 13-volume history of Winchester by the Oxford Press, the first volume of which is forthcoming. Martin Biddle estimates the project will take his researchers and himself until...
...History Judge represents a subtle and sophisticated endeavor by a man of exceptional intellect and high principles to tell the whole truth about a Communist disaster without throwing into doubt the Communist program and philosophy. He fails on the second count. Those chapters that reconstruct what happened under Stalin seem measured and secure as a historical record. But in the more theoretical sections, where he attempts to explain how a Communist revolution could give way to wholesale slaughter of a citizenry by its government, Medvedev is in difficulty. While asserting that Stalin's rise to power was not inevitable...
...many ways the growth of students protest over the past five years is a sign that Mexico is growing up. After the brutal Mexican Revolution, national leaders were faced with unifying a country in which local war lords jealously ruled their domains. Leaders began to reconstruct the country around new organizations and unions is order to replace the influence of army factions with stable government. They did their job so well that Mexican presidents after World War II held unchallengable authority. Slowly in the middle sixties, however, young members of the middle class, who had grown up in a peaceful...
...international monetary system is in ruins, and it will be necessary to reconstruct...
...Cambodia, Willwerth is hardly a stranger to violence. He saw the assault on Attica as "a classic tragedy. Those of us waiting outside finally realized that it would end only with the counting of the dead." Willwerth was joined by Mary Cronin and Leonard Levitt, who helped reconstruct what had happened behind the walls and how the towns people of Attica viewed the conflict. Levitt, an experienced police reporter, obtained a private interview with Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald. Roger Williams, as signed to analyze the political impact of Attica, obtained a special interview with Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Joseph Boyce...