The general turns out to be a coward. When Chilean police knocked on Augusto Pinochet's door and threatened to slap the cuffs on him, Pinochet fainted.
Pinochet was placed under house arrest on Jan. 28 for his role in ordering the...
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14 February 2001
Gore delivers homilies to journalism students in Colombia University, scarcely more than a stone's throw away from where his erstwhile boss is now proposing to establish an office in Harlem, N.Y., on 125th Street. Each has found his...
07 February 2001
Libya's Muammar Qaddafi said before the verdict on the two Libyans that the three Scottish judges had three options: to acquit, resign or commit suicide. In the event, the canny trio took a fourth course, which was to find one Libyan,...
02 February 2001
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Updated Edition Volume 4, by Dr. Manning Marable, in the South End Press Classics Series
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black...
01 February 2001
More and more Americans are seeing politicians use government-incurred debt as a vehicle for paying off contributors to political campaigns, raiding the public treasury, undercutting the personal income-tax base, stratifying the nation’s...
31 January 2001
What else did Bill Clinton do in those final hours of his presidency? Let's see, he gave Teddy Roosevelt the Medal of Honor and boasted in the accompanying speech on Jan. 16 that in 1993 he'd broken with the usual policy of incoming...
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