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91Anders, Władysław — ▪ Polish officer born , Aug. 11, 1892, Błonie, Pol., Russian Empire died May 12, 1970, London, Eng. commanding officer of the Polish army in the Middle East and Italy during World War II who became a leading figure among the anticommunist… …
92Australian Democratic Labor Party — ▪ political party, Australia (ADLP), right wing political party in Australia founded in 1956–57 by Roman Catholic and other defectors from the Australian Labor Party. Militantly anticommunist, the ADLP supported Western and other… …
93Central Asia, history of — Introduction history of the area from prehistoric and ancient times to the present. In its historical application the term Central Asia designates an area that is considerably larger than the heartland of the Asian continent. Were it… …
94Italian Democratic Socialist Party — ▪ political party, Italy Italian Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI) anticommunist reform party advocating the nationalization of some industries. As a centre party, it was able to join many Italian governments in the decades… …
95Nixon, Richard M. — ▪ president of United States Introduction in full Richard Milhous Nixon born January 9, 1913, Yorba Linda, California, U.S. died April 22, 1994, New York, New York 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain… …
96Soviet invasion of Afghanistan — ▪ 1979 invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim… …
97Tabatabaʾi, Sayyid Zia od-Din — ▪ Iranian statesman born c. 1888 died Aug. 29, 1969, Tehrān Iranian statesman who led the coup d état of 1921 in which he was made prime minister. Tabatabaʾi became prominent during World War I as the editor of a pro British newspaper …
98Doloris Bridges — (ca. 1916 – January 16, 1969), widow of a 25 year U.S. Senator, was the first woman to seek election to the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire.[1] Considered as an example of staunchly anticommunist women who emerged as leaders during the Goldwater… …
99Nong Chan Refugee Camp — was one of the earliest organized refugee camps on the Thai Cambodian border, where thousands of Khmer refugees sought food and health care after fleeing the Vietnamese invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1979. It was destroyed by the Vietnamese… …
100Chronology — 1890 The year traditionally considered the official closing of the West according to the U.S. Census Bureau and also according to Frederick Jackson Turner, whose interpretation of the Western experience would dominate Western historical and… …
