Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former military officers' club in Tehran. "Waldheim, look at us," shouted one of the wounded demonstrators. "Give the Shah back to us!" One man plucked out his glass eye and shouted: "That's what the Shah did to me!" Another lifted up his armless five-year-old son and told Waldheim that the Shah's secret police had mutilated the child in an attempt to wring a confession from his older brother, who was an anti-Shah dissident...
Many people supported Carter's decision to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union after its invasion into Afghanistan. For instance, a middle-aged Cambridge matron said, "It beats drafting my son...
...well-born son of a general, Karmal has been a Marxist ever since his days as a student at Kabul University; his graduation was delayed by a stint in prison for left-wing agitation. His Parcham Party always leaned more dependably toward Moscow than Taraki's more broadly based faction, which sometimes espoused a Maoist-flavored brand of Marxism. Says former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Robert Neumann: "Karmal is the original Communist, a dyed-in-the-wool article...
...taking an occasional liberty with the facts, Moliére was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. His father was a master upholsterer and a minor functionary of the court, whose duty it was to prepare the king's bed three months of the year. He intended that his son would turn down the royal sheets after he had gone, but the young man decided to become a lawyer and went to Orléans for training. He eventually concluded that all lawyers are frauds and decided to become a legitimate fraud, which is to say an actor. He changed Poquelin...
...Gandhi had spent a week in jail for contempt of parliament; she is still facing four court cases involving abuses of power during the 21-month emergency dictatorship she established in 1975. In this week's national election, however, she was likely to regain her parliamentary seat; her son, Sanjay, out of prison on appeal, was also expected to be elected to parliament...