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'Nuclear winter' is still a threat, scientists say Cold War buzzword returns to forefront
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SAN FRANCISCO -- With superpower nuclear arsenals plummeting to a
third of 1980s levels and slated to drop by another third, the
nightmarish visions of nuclear winter offered up by scientists
during the Cold War have receded.
But they haven't gone away.
Researchers at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting
warned Monday that even a small regional nuclear war could burn
enough cities to shroud the globe in black smoky shadow and usher in
the manmade equivalent of the Little Ice Age.
"Nuclear weapons represent the greatest single human threat to
the planet, much more so than global ...
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Yugoslav Leader, Dissident Milovan Djilas Dies at 83
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Milovan Djilas, 83, a wartime partisan leader who...unanimous in their evaluations of Mr. Djilas. Journalist John Gunther called him...writer Edward Crankshaw observed: "Milovan Djilas, whatever else he lacks, is the very...
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MILOVAN DJILAS, 83; LEADING CRITIC OF STALIN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Milovan Djilas, who killed and risked death to...critic, died Thursday. He was 83. Djilas, once heir apparent to Yugoslavia...central Belgrade home. His son Aleksa Djilas, who reported his death to The...
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Milovan Djilas, RIP.(Yugoslav author)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...Communists may have been coined with Milovan Djilas in mind. There is no more damning...than The New Class, published by Djilas in 1957, not long after he became...that he had helped bring to power. Djilas had, at one point, been considered...
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Milovan Djilas: Of New Classes and Old Truths
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Milovan Djilas, one of the communist world's oldest...associate of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Djilas had the courage and intellectual honesty...supporters of the deposed monarchy. In 1957, Djilas's celebrated indictment of the "New...
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''Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destruction,'' by Milovan Djilas; Alfred A. Knopf (384 pagwa, $30).(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...of the Yugoslav Communist Party, Milovan Djilas had a vested interest in the fate...involvement. As a partisan activist, Djilas tasted the exuberance of revolutionary...communism's fate in Yugoslavia, Djilas began a tortuous about-face that...
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SERBIA: REMEMBERING MILOVAN DJILAS.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...fifth anniversary of the death of Milovan Djilas. A man who evolved from being a...Yugoslavia's most famous dissident, Djilas will be remembered at home and abroad...Danas" on 5 June. The drama of Djilas' life was the drama of Serbs...
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A Yugoslav dissident in no mood to celebrate Milovan Djilas sees more trouble ahead
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...study. He moves slowly, but Milovan Djilas' face is soft and unmarked...communism must be changed," says Djilas. "What I was wrong about was...Prague's presidential castle, Milovan Djilas was Eastern Europe's most famous...
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OBITUARIES Milovan Djilas
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...a certain sensibility, and age, Milovan Djilas gave Marxism a moral perspective absent...utterly penetrable. It still is. Djilas must be admired for his unshakeable...own right. Both were written while Djilas was in prison.
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Yugoslavia's Heretic in A New World;Milovan Djilas on Breaking With Moscow, Then and Now
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...long enough is the best revenge for Milovan Djilas. But the communist world's most...sunny a 78-year-old to gloat. Djilas is just back from his first visit...at a symposium on those events, Djilas was feted as a guest of the Literary...
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Remembering Milovan Djilas.(Yugoslavian political figure)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...spoke with awe of the foremost dissident in the world, Milovan Djilas. Nobody had done more than he to expose the reality...royalist regime, Rankovic had been in prison with Milovan Djilas. Communists in the underground, and then together...
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