(Enrique Torner, USA, 02/24/20 3:41 am)
I would like to address in this post several comments and questions addressed in recent WAIS comments on Francoism.
First all, I would like to thank Carmen Negrín (February 19th) for sha
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(Paul Levine, Denmark, 02/24/20 3:14 am)
Xu Zhiyong, the Chinese dissident who called Xi Jinping "not very smart" and called for him to resign,
has been arrested. Xu's remarks came at a time of increasing calls for freedo
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(Michael Sullivan, USA, 02/24/20 2:55 am)
Speaking of the American Olympic hockey team's upset victory over the Russians in the Olympic Games in 1980, it was a world-newsworthy event. I may have shared this anecdote years ago on WAI
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(Angel Vinas, Belgium, 02/23/20 10:02 am)
In reply to John Eipper's latest query, I'm sharing a couple of my archival discoveries:
I don't know or I haven't found any book dealing with the fact that the chief of the Repu
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(Boris Volodarsky, Austria, 02/23/20 8:43 am)
Ángel Viñas's toiling in the archives obviously deserves every praise and yes (answering JE's query in his 22 February comment on Ángel's post), there's a lot of n
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(David Duggan, USA, 02/23/20 4:56 am)
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the US Olympic hockey team's 4-3 victory over the USSR at the Lake Placid Cold War Olympics. It is also the first weekend in eight years that former Illinois
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(Rodolfo Neirotti, USA, 02/23/20 4:05 am)
As usual, I enjoyed Tor Guimaraes's posting (February 22nd), as well as his concern about the current political situation in the US, due to the unpredictable behavior of the president.
Pleas
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(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 02/22/20 4:22 am)
I have two questions for the highly respected retired military leaders on this Forum.
All military people swear an oath to protect the US constitution against its internal and external enemies.
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(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 02/22/20 3:55 am)
Many times I have insisted on the WAIS Forum that main motivations of all nationalistic movements in Europe, including Catalonia and Brexit, are xenophobic, racist and supremacist feelings. Parti
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(Angel Vinas, Belgium, 02/22/20 3:04 am)
In reply to John's query of February 17th, I should like to report that I've spent two weeks at the archives in Ávila (Military Archives), AGA (Madrid, diplomatic archives) and Paris (m
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