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 Gerald Götting, the Christian Democratic Union party national chairman in Berlin. There may have been input from fellow-members, but it is widely assumed that the text of what came to be known as the "Neuenhagen letter" was composed by Ackermann herself. The theme of the letter was reform ("der Reformprozess").It identified an institutionalised resistance to reform. Local party members could in some ways be taken as a microcosm  for East German society as a whole. In personal conversations, where the "psychological barriers" presented by public discussion could be set aside, you would find the concerns, anxieties, irritations, disappointments and political disagreements that you would find in the wider population and in workplaces, together with more positive attitudes and other joys. But none of the "opinion research" undertaken by one-on-one conversations was reflected in the state institutions or in the state-controlled media. The closely thought through "beef" of the letter was divided into four sections:
 The growing wave of emigration pressure and its handling by the state authorities ("Die Ausreise-und Reisewelle in der DDR und ihre Handhabung durch den Apparat "),
 Absence of any spirit of [political] pluralism ("Der fehlende geistige Pluralismus"),
 The condition of representative democracy ("Der Stand der Vertretungsdemokratie,") and
 The church:state relationship. Back in the early 1950s, as the East German leadership struggled to impose itself, the "Neuenberger letter" might have led to arrest and imprisonment or worse. Back then the leadership were confident that they could rely, where necessary, on fraternal Soviet intervention to impose order, as happened in 1953.In the 1980s, however, with the winds of Perestroika blowing across from, of all places, Moscow, there could be no such confidence. In shared export markets the Soviet Union and East German were increasingly coming across one another as commercial rivals, while at government level the personal relationships between the two leaderships were terrible. The East German leadership therefore lacked the iron confidence to impose its will uncompromisingly on dissenters. Nevertheless, authorship of the


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texts: "Neuenhagen latter" did not come without personal cost to Ackermann. The Ministry for State security launched an Operativer Vorgang (loosely:"operational process") against her. Research projects on which she was working were cut. On 13 April 1989, on flimsy grounds, she lost the post to which she had been promoted at the (East) German Academy of Sciences as deputy section leader of the Central Institute for Cancer Research.She had to reckon with the constant possibility that her car would be tampered with overnight. <mask> did not withdraw from politics, however, and her actions were indeed part of a wider series of changes, although it was hard to anticipate exactly where those changes were leading. In May 1989 she stood successfully as a Christian Democratic Union candidate for election to the local council in Neuenhagen. In October 1989 she was one of those who called for an "extraordinary Christian Democratic Union party conference", and on 31 October 1989 she was one of the Christian Democratic Union members who met at a little Lutheran priory on the eastern outskirts of Berlin to prepare for a visit to Gerald Götting the next day. This led, finally, to the resignation of Götting as party leader on 2 November 1989,  to be replaced by Lothar de Maizière. On 9 November 1989 protesters breached the Berlin Wall. It quickly became apparent that the Soviet troops in East Germany had received no orders to intervene, and the future trajectory of the Peaceful Revolution became a little clearer.In January 1990 <mask> found herself invited to resume her teaching at the Charité where, in August 1991, she took over as acting director of the Pharmacology-Toxicology Institute. In Neuenhagen, newly elected to the local council, Ackermann participated in local round table negotiations, as the politically engaged struggled to find a path ahead. In March 1990 the German Democratic Republic held its first (and, as matters turned out, last) freely conducted general election. <mask> <mask> stood for election as a Christian Democratic Union candidate and was elected, representing the Frankfurt (Oder) electoral district in the National Parliament (Volkskammer). German reunification took

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 place, formally, in October 1990. This was accompanied by a dissolution of the East German Volkskammer, and the transfer of 144 (out of the 400 former members) Volkskammer members into an enlarged German Bundestag. Those making the transfer, which included <mask>, were elected by fellow members.The East German Christian Democratic Union had leap-frogged into first place in the March election, as a result of which 71 of the 144 eastern members transferring to the Bundestag on 3 October 1990 came from the eastern Christian Democratic Union and its close German Social Union ally. The Eastern and western CDU were now merged leaving <mask> as a member of the pan-German Christian Democratic Union. She remained a Bundestag member till the general election which took place in December 1990. After reunification
<mask> found herself back in the Bundestag in October 1991 following the resignation from the assembly of Lothar de Maizière, who had served as East Germany's last prime minister during the summer of the previous year. <mask> was selected to take on her former colleague's Brandenburg seat. She now remained a member till the 1994 election after which she withdrew from national politics, though she remained politically active in her own region. <mask> returned to the Charité, was appointed a director in 1994, and remained engaged as a teacher at the medical faculty's Institute for Clinical Pharmacology till her retirement in 1998.She had also remained a member of the local council in Neuenhagen since 1989, and in 1996 she was elected chair of the Christian Democratic Union party group on the council. In Summer 2007 she resigned the chair after the majority of the group had indicated that the time had come for a change. Press reports indicated that this came as the culmination of a period of internal ructions in the group who had as much to do with personality differences as with policy  differences. In September 2007 <mask> also resigned her party membership. Her fellow council member, Susanne Ahrens, withdrew her support from the Christian Democratic Union faction in the council at the same time. They formed an alternative grouping which they called the "Christlich soziale

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In 2014 <mask> became the first recipient of the Wilhelm Wolf prize. Wilhelm Wolf was the first regional chairman of the regional Christian Democratic Union of Germany in Brandenburg. He was killed under circumstances that were never clearly explained in a motor accident during the period when Brandenburg was part of the Soviet occupation zone and the authorities were implementing a carefully crafted plan to impose one-party rule. References

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<mask> 1818 – August 16, 1893) was an American mathematician, linguist, and educator. He was the first black college professor in the United States, teaching at New York Central College, McGrawville. Early life and education
<mask> was born in New York City as one of three sons to Michel and Elizabeth (Melville<mask>, free people of color (their surname was originally Rison). They were from Guadeloupe and Saint-Domingue, respectively, and immigrated as refugees in 1793 shortly after the early years of the Haitian Revolution. His brothers were Elwer W. and Patrick H<mask>, who also became leaders. Their older sister Policarpe died in 1818 at age four. <mask> and two of his brothers attended the African Free School in New York; among their classmates were Henry Highland Garnet, George T. Downing, and Ira Aldridge.As <mask> was a child prodigy in mathematics, he began teaching the subject there, at the age of fourteen. He attended the short-lived Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire, in 1835. He next appears in 1849 as a faculty member, giving an inaugural address, at the New York Central College, an integrated institution founded by members of the American Baptist Free Mission Society in McGraw, New York (then called McGrawville, not to be confused with the current McGrawville). He was described as of "fair education and superior intelligence, 'complexion very light, beautiful black curly hair and a magnificent moustache'. He would very easily pass for an Anglo-Saxon." Another description says he is "one of the most courtly gentlemen of the colored race in this city" (New York).

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 He was principal of Colored Grammar School No. 2, on 41st Street.Later he was principal of Colored School No. 6 on 36th Street. During this time, he was instrumental in efforts to abolish slavery and segregation. He was a delegate to the Colored Labor Convention held in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1870. He successfully lobbied for passage of an 1873 statute to integrate New York's public schools; however, in 1876 he was the head of New York City's colored public schools. He was politically active in many community groups. In the presidential election of 1884 he was a candidate for the Electoral College, at the moment a politically important position, on the Republican ticket.In 1878 he owned a brownstone at 242 East 53rd St. It was filled with books. He was described as "a remarkably well-read man and speaks several languages. ...He is said to be worth $60,000" (). After the public schools in New York City were desegregated, he became principal of Grammar School No. 80 at 252 West 42nd Street. Although suffering two strokes (one in 1885 and one in 1890) that left him physically incapacitated, <mask> continued at his post until he retired, some five months before his death.<mask> was also a poet. He contributed to the Colored American in the 1830s and was a leader of New York City's Phoenix Society in the 1840s. He wrote the poem "Freedom", which celebrated the British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson; it was published in Alexander Crummell's 1849 biography of Clarkson. Marriage and family
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 married and widowed three times. His third and final wife was Clorice (Duplessis) Esteve (1819–1884), whom he married in New York City on July 17, 1855. They had no children, although she had a daughter from her previous marriage to <mask> Esteve (1809–1852), a French West Indian confectioner, restaurateur, and caterer in New York City. <mask> suffered two strokes, which, after a recovery period, required him to go to work in a carriage, as he could not walk.He retired five months before his death. He died in his 53rd St. home in New York City in 1893. The cause of his death was specified as Bright's disease. His estate was estimated at $30,000. Further reading
John E. Fleming (with the assistance of Julius Hobson Jr., John McClendon and Herschelle Reed), The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery: A Historical Justification for Affirmative Action for Blacks in Higher Education (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974)
 Anthony R. Mayo, "<mask> <mask>," Negro History Bulletin 5 (June 1942):212-15
 W. J. Simmons, Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising (1887), pp. 1105–13. References

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<mask> (), or <mask>, is a Chinese defector to Australia and self-proclaimed former spy. In November 2019, <mask> sought political asylum in Australia, claiming to be a spy who was involved in the People's Republic of China's intervention in the affairs of Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan. The factual accuracy of his claims is disputed, and some experts suggested he may not be more than a low-level operative. <mask>'s case drew worldwide attention, and led to two arrests in Taiwan. In November 2021, <mask>'s main assertions regarding his involvement in building a "spy network" in Taiwan were discredited after Taiwan authority announced years-long investigation found no evidence to support the existence of such network or activity, and individuals that <mask> accused as his associates or spy handlers were cleared of all national security charges due to "a lack of evidence". Investigation
Shanghai police stated that <mask> is a convicted fraudster who left mainland China for Hong Kong on bogus travel documents. Online court records appear to confirm he had received a suspended sentence of 18 months from a Fujian court in October 2016.<mask> has denied these allegations. The factual accuracy of these claims (of fraud) are disputed by <mask>, because, according to ASPI's strategic analyst Alex Joske who participated in 60 Minutes's investigation of <mask>, <mask> claimed he obtained a police check which was clear of any such convictions when he applied for Australian visa. <mask> claims that he was involved in the PRC government's operation to support pro-Beijing media outlets in Taiwan and candidates in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections, with the ultimate goal to prevent incumbent ROC President Tsai Ing-wen's re-election in 2020. <mask> also claimed to be involved in the abductions of the Causeway Bay Books booksellers in Hong Kong, although Lam Wing-kee, one

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described allegations of a Chinese plot to infiltrate Australia's parliament as "deeply disturbing". "I would caution anyone leaping to any conclusions about these matters. And that's why we have these agencies." On 24 November 2019, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) confirmed that <mask>'s allegations were being taken "seriously", but did

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Speaking on national television, Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg declined to comment on ASIO's "operational matter," but said that the Australian government "makes no apologies for the laws that [it's] introduced around foreign interference and foreign influence." Mainland China
Ma Xiaoguang, leader of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Chinese State Council, claimed that "the mainland never involves itself in Taiwanese elections, and these reports are complete nonsense." He further stated that whoever "made up" this story intends to meddle with the Taiwanese election unjustly and that he believed "Taiwanese compatriots will see this right through." The Jing'an Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau issued an official statement that <mask> was a fugitive in a fraud case and that both his Chinese passport and Hong Kong permanent resident identity card were forged. On 27 November, Chinese state-owned Global Times released an "exclusive" court video apparently showing <mask> on trial for fraud,

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 admitting all charges, and given a suspended sentence of 18 months.However, some critics argued that the video is likely doctored, because it appears "blurry" and "heavily edited," and features mostly the back of the subject. Taiwan

Han Kuo-yu, the Kuomintang presidential candidate rejected claims of electoral assistance from the CCP and said that if he had taken even a single dollar from them for the campaign, he would withdraw immediately. President Tsai responded that China obviously intends to interfere with Taiwanese elections. Wong Yen-ching, former deputy director of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau, stated that he suspected <mask> of fraud and that based on his professional judgement, he can say with certainty that [<mask>'s allegations] were falsified in an attempt to seek political asylum.” According to him, <mask>'s claim that he worked in both Taiwan and Hong Kong, and that he reported to two supervisors at the same time contradicts the basic principles of espionage as spies assigned tasks in one location at a time, will not report to multiple supervisors simultaneously. In addition, Wong says that <mask> referred to China’s intelligence bureau by a former name,  appearing to have no knowledge that it was later renamed. Wong asserts "If <mask> had valuable information to provide, the Australian government would protect the information by attempting to prevent him from giving interviews. As Canberra apparently does not trust him, <mask> must have spoken to the media in an attempt to avoid being deported back to China".See also
 2019 Australian Parliament infiltration plot
 Australia-China relations
 Cross-Strait relations

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<mask> (1915–1991), known as <mask>, was an American writer, farmer and Peace Corps volunteer. He worked and wrote in the small town of Rio Verde, Ecuador. His books have been praised by writers such as Paul Theroux, Thomas Cahill and Larry McMurtry. Early and later life

<mask> was born in 1915 into a wealthy American family in Seattle. His namesake was after his grandfather a powerful Washington businessman. Charlie, his father was President of Centennial Mills (Krusteaz Brand) and a multi-millionaire at the turn of the 20th century. As detailed in his memoirs, his relationship with his father was extremely strained, with <mask> describing the man as "tyrannical."During World War II, <mask> served as a B-17 Flying Fortress bombardier in the Eighth Air Force. At age 44 he was working as a farmer in California when he decided to join the Peace Corps. In 1964, at 48 years old, <mask> came to Ecuador as one of the first volunteers of the Peace Corps . Upon arrival, and after many wanderings, he was assigned on condition of agricultural expert to the small fishing town of Green River, north of the province of Esmeraldas . <mask> lived for four years in that village, and a total of 35 years in Ecuador. After serving as a volunteer for four years, he remained in Ecuador. He died in 1991 of cholera.Writings
During his time in Ecuador, <mask> wrote and published four books of memories and impressions, most of them on Ecuador and experience with poverty. Living Poor: a Peace Corps Chronicle
The first of these books,  Living Poor: a Peace Corps Chronicle  originally appeared as a series of vignettes in the San Francisco Chronicle,

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 in its Sunday edition. By 1968, these texts were collected, edited and appeared in the form of a printed book by University of Washington Press. From then until the present, the book has remained in print continuously, with editions in the US, UK, Germany and more recently France. In the US alone the book has sold over a hundred thousand copies. It was officially published in 1969 and is ranked as one of the best Peace Corps memoirs ever written. Other works
<mask> published a second book about his experience in Ecuador's agriculture in 1978:  The Farm on the River of Emeralds  and then, in 1989 and 1990 his two recent texts:  The Saddest Pleasure: a Journey on Two Rivers  , about his experiences in Ecuador and in a series of trips to Brazil.It won a 1991 Governor's Writers Award (now the Washington State Book Awards). In his introduction to The Best Travel Writing, 2005, author Tom Miller writes that  The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers  "embodies some of the very finest elements of travel literature: constant doubt, a meddlesome nature, and a disregard for nationalism." My Two Wars (published posthumously) looks at both his "tempestuous" relationship with his father and his experiences as a World War II bombardier. A fifth Thomsen book, Bad News From a Black Coast, has been recently published (available on Amazon). The San Francisco-based literary journal Zyzzyva published "The Bombardier's Handbook" in Winter 2013. A selection of entries from Thomsen's World War II diaries, "The Bombardier's Handbook" was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2014. According to the introduction by Pat Joseph,


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 biography of his life Wind in His Sails chronicled his adventures. His grandfather started the first flour mill on the west coast in the 1800s. It is estimated that his father, <mask> would have been a billionaire in modern day with inflation accounted for. <mask> was also of related to the fellow Danish Jensen family of Minnesota. Worldview

<mask>'s worldview is reflected in a statement he once made: "Living Poor is like being sentenced to exist in a stormy sea in a battered canoe, requiring all your strength simply to keep afloat; there is never any question of reaching a destination.True poverty is a state of perpetual crisis, and one wave just a little bigger or coming from an unexpected direction can and usually does wreck things." Bibliography

Selected works
 Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle   (1969; new edition by Eland in 2011)
 The Farm on the River of Emeralds (1978)
 The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers (1990)
 My Two Wars (1996) (published posthumously)
 Bad News from a Black Coast (2018)''

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External links
 Article at SpokesmanReview.com
 Article at PeaceCorpsWriters.org

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<mask> (Rome, 14 October 1901 – 7 July 1966) was an Italian aviator, powerboat racer, Air Force general during World War II, and the personal pilot of Benito Mussolini during the 1930s. Biography

Early career and interwar years

He was born in Rome on October 14, 1901, the son of Vittorio Biseo and Adelia Tommasini, and he enlisted in the Royal Italian Navy, serving on submarines after graduating as Ensign. On 5 September 1923 he was transferred at his request to the newly established Regia Aeronautica, and attended the Varese Flight School. In 1924 he became a seaplane pilot, initially serving at the 141st Seaplane Reconnaissance Squadron based in La Spezia. After a short period at the 25th Seaplane Wing, in January 1925 he was transferred to the School of Aerial Observation. In 1927 he married Miss Elena Fraschetti, with whom he had four children, Stefania, Maurizio, Marcella and Luciana. He participated in Italo Balbo's Western Mediterranean Air Cruise of 1928 and then in the Eastern Mediterranean Air Cruise of 1929.On 25 September 1929 he was appointed aide-de-camp of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Regia Aeronautica, General Giuseppe Valle, and in the same period he became the personal pilot of the head of the government, Benito Mussolini. After promotion to captain in 1930, he participated in the Italy-Brazil Transatlantic Air Cruise (17 December 1930 – 15 January 1931) as second pilot of the Savoia-Marchetti S.55 seaplane "I-VALL", piloted by General Valle. He later took part, as the first pilot of the S.55 "I-BISE", in the Decennial Air Cruise, obtaining promotion to the


texts: rank of major for extraordinary merits. A fan of powerboating, in 1932 and 1934 he won the classic Pavia-Venice motorboat race on board a SIAI airboat equipped with a Fiat and later a Farina engine. Also in 1932 he won the Montelera Cup held between Pontelagoscuro and Volta Grimana over a distance of 58.747 km. In 1935 he assumed command of the 12th Fast Bombardment Wing stationed in Montecelio, and subsequently of the "Nastro Azzurro" (Blue Ribbon) training unit. In the summer of the same year he piloted the prototype of the Savoia Marchetti S.79 (I-MAGO) during the visit made by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Valle, in East Africa.On 5 August he flew the S.79 from Massawa to Rome, with a short stop in Cairo, in 11 hours and 45 minutes, at an average speed of 350 km / h. On 23 September of the same year, still flying a Savoia Marchetti S.79 which took off from Rome-Urbe, he beat six world records on the Monte Cavo-Monte Nerone-Orbetello circuit: speed over 1,000 km with 500 kg load, average 390 km /h, speed over 1,000 km with 1,000 and 2,000 kg load, average 390 km/h; speed on 2,000 km with 500 and 1,000 kg of average load, 380 km/h (former USA record, 307,234 km/h). The record of 2,000 km without load held by Germany with 344,310 km / h was also beaten. For this feat he was decorated with the Gold Medal of Aeronautic Valor. In February 1937 he flew to Spain the first three S.79 bombers, coming from the 12th Wing, destined to equip the Aviazione Legionaria during the Spanish Civil War. Later in the same year he flew bombing missions in Spain, for which he was awarded


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 the Silver Medal of Military Valor. Between 20 and 21 August 1937 he took part in the Istres-Damascus-Paris air race aboard a S.79CS (I-BIMU) belonging to the 205th Bombardment Squadron, which he flew alongside Bruno Mussolini; they finished in third place, and Biseo was promoted to colonel and decorated with the silver medal for aeronautical valor. In January 1938 he participated, again together with Bruno Mussolini and Captain Antonio Moscatelli, in the Rome-Dakar-Rio de Janeiro raid of about 9,800 km, completed by three S.79T in little more than 24 hours.He was awarded a second gold medal for aeronautical valor for this feat. In those years he had a relationship with actress Leda Gloria, who in 1938 gave him two twin children, Ilia and Atte. In 1939 he became director in the new airline LATI, where he collaborated in the establishment of the Rome-Seville-Ilha do Sal-Recife-Rio de Janeiro air link, with airport installations on the Ilha do Sal being built under the supervision of his brother Giovanni. The service was inaugurated in November of the same year, and he temporarily moved to Brazil. Between 1939 and 1941 Charles Ponzi, inventor of the scheme of the same name, worked for LATI as commercial director; he obtained the job thanks to the intercession of <mask>, who was his cousin. World War II and later years

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<mask> (January 14, 1922 – August 6, 1977) was a top heavyweight contender who defeated fighters such as Tami Mauriello, Lee Savold, Lou Nova, and Freddie Mills, while losing decisions to <mask> and Ezzard Charles. Background
<mask> was a child of the Kulpmont, Pennsylvania coal mines. His parents was of Slovak descent. He was quoted as saying that he never had any intention of being a boxer, but he saw it "as a ticket to a better way of life, out of the coal mines." He broke into professional boxing in 1940 at the age of 18. He beat nine boxers that year, including the future movie actor Jack Palance (who fought under the name of Jack Brazzo) at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY. Boxing career

Becoming a contender
Baksi campaigned over the boxing circuit for a number of years, until he got his first big match with Tami Mauriello on February 25, 1944 at Madison Square Garden.Mauriello was the 5-11 favorite, and the bronx contender for the Heavyweight crown. Mauriello was expected to win, based on his experience. Baski hoped to win by matching punch with punch and using his 210 vs. 196 lb weight advantage to his favor. Tami was floored late in the first round with a left hook by Baksi, and was down for a nine count. Tami faced a battering and battled back to prevent his first knockout defeat. <mask> won by unanimous decision. <mask>'s upset over Tami sprang him to nationwide prominence.He was the favorite to beat Lee Savold two weeks later at the Garden, having the weight advantage and coming off his victory over Mauriello (who had beaten Savold twice before). But <mask> was a tyro compared to Savold. Baksi got off

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 second ranked (wartime) heavyweight. He scored easy decisions against Lee Dixie Oliver and Larry Lane, and then fought a thirty-one-year-old <mask> Walcott.Walcott had lost earlier bouts with world-class professionals, and was an underdog against <mask>. But Walcott won, scoring 6-3-1 on the single referees scorecard. Walcott's dancing and dodging allowed him to escape Baksi's reach, and he was able to get in enough hooks to make Baksi groggy. Baksi lost his next fight with Jimmy Bell (a split decision in which Baksi was penalized two rounds for a low blow), but then racked up four easy wins before traveling to Europe. Europe and back
<mask> left for Europe on October 9, 1946 to fight the two British champions. He first defeated British light heavy weight champion Freddie Mills. Baksi was sluggish in the first round, but Mills (who had chronic eye problems) suffered a cut in his right eye in the second round, and his left eye in the third.After a bad battering, Mills gave up at the end of the sixth round. <mask> then went on to fight British heavyweight champion Bruce Woodcock. Baksi floored Woodcock three times in the first round and twice in the second. Woodcock made a comeback in the fifth, but Baksi was scoring at will when the referee stopped it in the seventh. Woodcock went to the hospital with a broken jaw. After defeating Woodcock, <mask> was scheduled to fight <mask> for the world heavyweight title. <mask>, still in Europe after the Woodcock fight, signed a contract to fight the Swedish champion, Olle Tandberg in Stockholm.<mask> was the 1-5 favorite to beat Tandberg, and 1-3 favorite to knock him out by the seventh round.

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 <mask> was going into the ring with 6 straight victories (five by knockout), while Tandberg had been fighting only since 1943, and only against local fighters. Then, in what the New York Times reported as the greatest upset in years, Baksi lost a split decision. Even Tandberg was surprised, saying after the fight "I didn't believe I had won the fight. I thought I was too much on the defensive in the closing rounds." After his stunning defeat, <mask> took a year off. He was still the third ranked heavyweight contender, behind <mask> Walcott and Ezzard Charles, and ahead of Lee Savold, when he scheduled a fight with Ezzard Charles.The winner of that fight would have a title match with <mask>. Charles, the 5-14 favorite, defeated <mask> by TKO in the seventh. Later career
After being beaten by Charles, his status as a contender faded. After beating some obscure and aging boxers, he went into semi-retirement in 1951. He then made a comeback attempt in 1954, fighting Billy Smith, whom he knocked out in the first round. His second match was with a tougher opponent, Bob "The Grinder" Baker, who was the 7-5 favorite. Baksi had little to offer except courage and stamina, and lost by unanimous decision.Baksi's manager, Leo Feureisen, collapsed during the fight and died in the dressing room a short while after. <mask> went into permanent retirement after the bout. He then became a teamster and later an ironworker and joined the International Brotherhood of Ironworkers. Trivia
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<mask>  (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) was an English novelist best known for children's books, especially historical fiction and retellings of myths and legends. Although she was primarily a children's author, some of her novels were specifically written for adults. In a 1986 interview she said, "I would claim that my books are for children of all ages, from nine to ninety." For her contribution as a children's writer Sutcliff was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1974. Biography
<mask> was born 14 December 1920 to <mask> and his wife Nessie Elizabeth, née Lawton, in East Clandon, Surrey. She spent her childhood in Malta and various naval bases where her father, a Royal Navy officer, was stationed. She was affected by Still's disease when she was very young, and used a wheelchair most of her life.Due to her chronic illness, Sutcliff spent most of her time with her mother from whom she learned many of the Celtic and Saxon legends that she would later expand into works of historical fiction. Sutcliff's early schooling was constantly interrupted by moving house and her illness. She did not learn to read until she was nine years of age, and left school at age 14 to enter the Bideford Art School, which she attended for three years, graduating from the General Art Course. Sutcliff then worked as a painter of miniatures. Inspired by the children's historical novels of Geoffrey Trease, her first published book was The

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Autobiography
 Blue Remembered Hills: A recollection (1983); Sutcliff's memoir of her childhood and young adulthood. Other nonfiction
 Houses and History (London: Batsford, 1960), illustrated by William Stobbs
 Rudyard Kipling (1960), a monograph
 Heroes and History (1965), illus. Charles Keeping
 A Saxon Settler (People of the Past, 1965), illus. John Lawrence

Eagle of the Ninth series

The series, also referred to as 'Marcus'  is linked by the Aquila family dolphin ring and listed here in fictional chronological order.(They were not written as a series by the author.) The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), illus. C. Walter Hodges ‡
 The Silver Branch (1957), illus. Charles Keeping ‡
 Frontier Wolf (1980)
 The Lantern Bearers (1959)
 Sword at Sunset (1963); "officially for adults"
 Dawn Wind (1961), illus. Charles Keeping
 Sword Song (1997, posthumous)
 The Shield Ring (1956), illus. C. Walter Hodges

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 trilogy (The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers, 1954 to 1959). Arthurian novels
Raymond Thompson credits Sutcliff with "some of the finest contemporary recreations of the Arthurian story" and names these seven works.The first two are also part of the Eagle of the Ninth series (above) that attempt to depict Arthur as an actual historical figure. The Lantern Bearers (1959)
 Sword at Sunset (1963)
 Tristan and Iseult (1971); retells the story of Tristan and Iseult
 The Arthurian Trilogy (Inspired by Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.) The Sword and the Circle (1981), illus. Shirley Felts
 The Light Beyond the Forest (1979), illus. Shirley Felts
 The Road to Camlann (1981), illus. Shirley Felts
 The Shining Company (1990); retells the Y Gododdin story (the earliest mention of Arthur's name)

King Arthur Stories: Three books in one (1999), or The King Arthur Trilogy (2007), is an omnibus edition of the Arthurian Trilogy (1979 to 1981). Other children's novels
 The Chronicles of Robin Hood (Oxford, 1950), illus.C. Walter <mask>'s first published book
 The Queen Elizabeth Story (1950) illus. C. Walter Hodges
 The Armourer's House (1951) illus. C. Walter Hodges
 Brother Dusty-Feet (1952), illus. by C. Walter Hodges
 Simon (1953), illus. Richard Kennedy, cover art by William Stobbs; set during the 17th-century English Civil War
 Outcast (1955), illus. Richard Kennedy
 Warrior Scarlet (1958), illus. Charles Keeping
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 Bridge Builders (1960), illus. Douglas Relf, about the building of Hadrian's Wall. Originally published as a short story in Another Six (Another 6): Stories by Richard Armstrong, William Mayne, Noel Streatfeild, Patricia Lynch, A. Philippa Pearce, <mask>. UK: Blackwell, 1959. Beowulf: Dragonslayer (1961) illus. Charles Keeping; retells the Beowulf story
 The Hound of Ulster (1963), illus. Victor Ambrus; retells the story of Cúchulainn
 The Mark of the Horse Lord (1965), illus.Charles Keeping;
 The Chief's Daughter (1967), illus. Victor Ambrus;
 The High Deeds of Finn MacCool (1967), illus. Michael Charleton
 A Circlet of Oak Leaves (1968), illus. Victor Ambrus
 The Witch's Brat (1970), illus. Richard Lebenson
 The Truce of the Games (1971), illus. Victor Ambrus
 Heather, Oak, and Olive (1972), illus. Victor Ambrus; a collection of three dramatic stories: "The Chief's Daughter", "A Circlet of Oak Leaves", and "A Crown of Wild Olive" (originally published as "The Truce of the Games")
 The Capricorn Bracelet (1973), illus.Charles Keeping (later, Richard Cuffari); six stories, linked by a Roman armilla (military decoration), that originated as radio scripts
 The Changeling (1974), illus. Victor Ambrus
 We Lived in Drumfyvie (1975), by <mask> and Margaret Lyford-Pike. "The authors combine their talents to recreate 700 years in the life of an imaginary Scottish burgh. The folk of Drumfyvie tell their own

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 stories. " Blood Feud (1976), illus. Charles Keeping. Adapted as a TV movie in 1990, titled Sea Dragon.Sun Horse, Moon Horse (1977), illus. Shirley Felts
 Shifting Sands (1977), illus. Laslzo Acs
 Song for a Dark Queen (1978); retells the story of Queen Boudica
 Eagle's Egg (1981), illus. Victor Ambrus
 Bonnie Dundee (1983), the story of John Graham, 1st Viscount of Dundee, and the Jacobite rising of 1689
 Flame-coloured Taffeta (1986), illus. Rachel Birkett
 The Roundabout Horse (1986) illus. Alan Marks
 A Little Dog Like You (1987) illus. Jane Johnson
 The Best of <mask>cliff (1987), illus.Charles Keeping—omnibus edition of Warrior Scarlet, The Mark of the Horse Lord, and Knight's Fee (1958–1965)
 The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup (1993, posthumous), illus. by Emma Chichester Clark; also serialised in Cricket
 Black Ships Before Troy (1993, posth. ), illus. Alan Lee; retells the Iliad story; also serialised in Cricket
 Chess-Dream in a Garden (1993, posth. ), illus. Ralph Thompson A fantasy for children inspired by the Lewis Chessmen. The Wanderings of Odysseus (1995, posth.), illus. Alan Lee; retells the Odyssey story

Novels for adults
 Lady in Waiting (1957); set in Tudor England, the story of Bess Throckmorton, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh
 The Rider of the White Horse (1959); set during the 17th-century English Civil War, about Parliamentarian general Sir Thomas Fairfax and his wife Anne who travelled on campaign with him
 Sword at


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 Sunset (1963); set in sub-Roman Britain, a story of King Arthur as the Romano-Celtic warrior prince he may have been; part of The Eagle of the Ninth series
 The Flowers of Adonis (1969); set in ancient Greece, about the brilliant but erratic Athenian general Alkibiades and the Peloponnesian War
 Blood and Sand (1987); set during the Napoleonic Wars, based on the life of the soldier Thomas Keith. Other works

Plays and screenplays
 The New Laird. Radio play (BBC Schools Radio series Stories from Scottish History). Broadcast 7 May 1966. Ghost Story. Screenplay with Stephen Weeks and Philip Norman, 1975.Mary Bedell. Stage play. Produced London, 1986. The Eagle of the Ninth. Stage play with Mary Rensten. Articles
 "History Is People". A paper distributed at a conference on Children's Literature in Education, Exeter, England, 1971.Reprinted in Children and Literature: Views and Reviews, edited by Virginia Haviland, pp. 305–312 Scott, Foresman 1973, pp. 305–312
 "Combined Ops". Junior Bookshelf 24 (July 1960):121–27. Reprinted in Egoff, Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature, 1st ed., pp. 244–48; 2d ed., pp. 284–88.Describes the process of writing Eagle of the Ninth and The Lantern Bearers. Collected papers

In 1966 Sutcliff made a small donation to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (In this she responded to Lena Grummond's international call for


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 original materials to establish the Collection.) The Sutcliff Papers include a manuscript and two typescripts for the radio play The New Laird. That programme was taped 4 April 1966 and broadcast from Edinburgh on 17 May 1966 as part of the Stories from Scottish History series (BBC Radio Scotland). The collection also includes a small red composition book of research notes for The Lantern Bearers and for two unpublished works, The Amber Dolphin and The Red Dragon. Works about Sutcliff

 Margaret Meek, <mask>, New York, Henry Z. Walck, (1962), a brief biographical monograph and critical study.John Rowe Townsend, "<mask>tcliff", a critical essay in A Sense of Story: Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children, London, Longman, 1971, pp. 193–99. Reissued as A Sounding of Storytellers (1979). Barbara L. Talcroft, Death of the Corn King: King and Goddess in <mask>'s Historical Novels for Young Adults, Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1995. Miriam Youngerman Miller, "The Rhythm of a Tongue: Literary Dialect in <mask>'s Novels of the Middle Ages for Children", Children's Literature Association Quarterly 19:1, Spring 1994, pp. 25–31. Hilary Wright, Shadows on the Downs: Some Influences of Rudyard Kipling on <mask>.Children's Literature in Education 12, No. 2:90-102 (Summer 1981)
 The Search for Selfhood: The Historical Novels of <mask>. TLS : Essays and Reviews from the Times Literary Supplement, 17 June 1965, p. 498.

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 Reprinted in Only Connect: Readings on children's literature, ed. Sheila Egoff et al. Toronto New York: Oxford University Press (Canadian Branch), 1969, pp. 249–255.Abby Mims, <mask> in British Writers: Supplement 16. Ed. Jay Parini. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2010. Web: Gale Literature Resource Center. Awards
The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. <mask> was one of three runners-up for the writing award in 1974 (and the British nominee in 1968 as well).She won several awards for particular works. 1959 Carnegie Medal, The Lantern Bearers
 1971  (the Dutch Silver Pencil)
 1972 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Tristan and Iseult
 1978 The Other Award, Song for a Dark Queen
 1985 Phoenix Award, The Mark of the Horse Lord (1965)
 2010 Phoenix Award, The Shining Company (1990)

Besides winning the 1959 Carnegie Medal, Sutcliff was a commended runner-up five times. Alan Lee, who illustrated Sutcliff's posthumously published retellings of The Iliad and The Odyssey, won the companion Kate Greenaway Medal for the former, Black Ships Before Troy (1993). See also

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References

External links
  – books, TV scripts, films, TV versions and life; by her literary executor Anthony Lawton
Official Birth Centenary Blog; also by her literary executor Anthony Lawton

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 Appreciation" by Sandra Garside-Neville, first published in Solander (Journal of the Historical Novel Society), No. 8, pp. 2–6, December 2000
 "Of the Minstrel Kind" by Margaret Meek, a tribute to <mask> at seventy published in Books for Keeps No. 64, September 1990
 "<mask> 1920–1992" at HistoricalNovels.info
 Sutcliff's Roman Britain novels reviewed by Eric Eller at The Green Man Review – provides synopses and discusses the series in the context of place and chronological setting
 Interview with Sutcliff on the Arthurian novel Sword at Sunset by Raymond H. Thompson, 1986], The Camelot Project, Robbins Library Digital Projects, University of Rochester
 "Obituary: <mask>", Julia Eccleshare, The Independent, 27 July 1992

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<mask> 謝德驥 (born 1972) is a Chinese American classical saxophonist. <mask> was mainly self-taught as a youth until he met world-renowned saxophone artist and pedagogue Eugene Rousseau in 1989. He then studied at the Indiana University School of Music with Rousseau from 1993–1998, where he received his BM, MM, and Artist Diploma. Rousseau has called him "a brilliant saxophonist, worthy of any stage in the world." <mask> earned a doctorate degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying under saxophonist Debra Richtmeyer. Biography
<mask> started his performance career in 1996 as the winner of the prestigious New York Artists International Award, which resulted in an acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall, after which he was hailed as “a young virtuoso” by the New York Times. The Alex Award from the National Alliance for Excellence led to another Carnegie Hall performance.These are but two of the multitude of awards that <mask> has garnered in less than a decade and a half. Since then he has been a frequent soloist on five continents, including solo appearances with the Des Moines Symphony, United States Navy Band, Slovenia Army Band, La Armónica Band of Bunol, Spain, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hong Kong Sinfonietta among others. He is frequent featured artist at events such as the triennial World Saxophone Congress and North American Saxophone Alliance conferences. He has also been a guest clinician at conferences hosted by the California Band Directors’ Association, Iowa Bandmaster’s Association, and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinics. Prestigious universities and conservatories worldwide, such as Moscow Conservatory and Paris Conservatory have invited him to give master classes. He has received numerous awards and grants including the

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 prestigious Hong Kong Jockey Club scholarship, New York Music Performance Trust Fund, Indiana University Marcel Mule Scholarship, University of Iowa CD Subvention Fund, Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant, Barlow Commission Fund, as well as an honorary life membership from the Contemporary Record Society. In 2009, desiring to give back to his home city, Hong Kong, <mask> created the first Hong Kong International Saxophone Symposium which attracted over 70 saxophonists from around the world to join the event.In addition to <mask>, Eugene Rousseau from University of Minnesota and Claude Delangle from the Paris Conservatory were the faculty members to 12 active participants from three continents. With the tremendous success of the premiere event, <mask> has formed the Hong Kong International Saxophone Society as part of an effort to facilitate more interest in saxophone performance as well as to continue hosting the symposium every two years to expose Asian saxophonists to world-class saxophone performers and teachers. Teaching career
<mask> is currently the Professor of Saxophone at University of Iowa, President-elect of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the vice president of the International Saxophone Committee. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (D.M.A. ), Indiana University (B.M., M.M. and Artist Diploma) and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He receive the prestigious Artist Diploma from Indiana University School of Music.<mask>'s students have garnered high recognition through competitions and recordings as well as concert appearances. During the 2010 North American Saxophone Alliance National Competitions, <mask>'s students from University of Iowa won three of the top four awards in the conference's classical competitions (in both solo and

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 chamber music categories), the first time for a single studio to do so in the history of the conference. In the same month, his students also won the top chamber music prize and the second solo prize at the Music Teachers' National Association Competitions. Moreover, to end the academic year, his graduate-student quartet also won the silver medal at the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Recordings
"Saxophone Pictures"- Works by David DeBoor Canfield, Erwin Dressel, and Modest Mussorgsky. Crystal Records CD780 2013
"Chamber Music, Vol. 3"- Works by David DeBoor Canfield.Enharmonic Records 2013
"Written for <mask>"- Works by David DeBoor Canfield. Enharmonic Records 2012
"Martyrs for the Faith"- American Saxophone Concertos, 2012. Works by Paul Creston, David DeBoor Canfield, John Cheetham, and Ingolf Dahl. "Stony Brook Soundings Vol. I" (BRIDGE 9318) featuring <mask> and Escher String Quartet, music by Perry Goldstein
"Stellar Saxes" Duo recording with Nobuya Sugawa 2008, Crystal Records (CD359)
"Adolphe Sax Series Volume IX", 2006, University of Arizona Recordings (AUR CD3122), featuring Dale Underwood and <mask>se
"Pas de Trois", 2006, Crystal Records (CD 358), trio music for saxophone, bassoon, and piano by Feld, Froom, Goldstein, Freund, and van Beurden. "Seven Settings", 2006, University of Iowa, this is a disc contains works for saxophone by University of Iowa composers
"Lyric Soprano, 2005, Crystal Records (CD 658), music for soprano saxophone only by Naulais, Bedard, Worley, Lewis, including arrangements by Tse of music by Pusculli, Faure, Albeniz, and Piazzolla. "An American Exhibition", 2002, Crystal Records (CD 657), this disc contains all music by American composers such as Canfield, Cheetham, Larsen, Still, Vosk, Hartley, and Lewis; some of the pieces

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"In Memory", 2000, Enharmonic Records (ENCD00-014), this is a disc dedicated to his deceased mother, containing music by Bach, Canteloube, Reed, Husa, et al."Sonate", 1997, RIAX Records (RICA-2002), music by Maslanka, Saint-Saens, Rueff, and Worley
"Sparkling Sax", 1996, Crystal Records (CD 656), was his debut solo disc containing music by Feld, Muczynski, Heiden, Bernstein, etc. Musical works written for Tse
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Band by Frank Ticheli (2013) Consortium member
Con-Tse-to for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band by Gregory Fritze (2013)
Tengu Maï for Soprano Saxophone and Piano by Robert Lemay (2012)
Rock Us! for Two Soprano Saxophones by Barry Cockcroft (2012) published by Reed Music
Chaconne for Alto Saxophone Violin and Piano by Athanasios Thomas Peter Aronis (2012)
Cuento #3 for Two Alto Saxophones Piano and Percussion by Nelson Ramirez (2012)
Dualités forAlto Saxophone and Piano by Guy Lacour (2011) Billaudot
Sonata for Tenor Saxophone and Piano by David DeBoor Canfield (2011)
Incandescence for Tenor Saxophone and Piano by Ida Gotkovsky (2011) Consortium member
Paradosis for Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone and Piano by David DeBoor Canfield (2010), written for Stephen Page and <mask>
Cyrus the Great March for saxophone ensemble by Karl King/arr. Kevin Kastens (2010)
Pictures at an Exhibition for Saxophones and Piano by Modest Mussorgsky/arr. by David DeBoor Canfield (2010)
Reflections, a Waltz for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra by Yuri Sherling (2010)
Blue Arc for Alto Saxophone and Piano by Michael Eckert (2009)
Capriccio for Saxophone Quartet by Leonard Mark Lewis (2009)
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Band by Leonard Mark Lewis (2009)
Le Tombeau de Ravel for Soprano Saxophone and Piano by Piet Swerts (2009)
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Sonata for Baritone Saxophone and Piano by David DeBoor Canfield (2008)
Unremembered Wings for Soprano Saxophone and Piano by Andrea Clearfield (2001/2008)
Buffalo Dance for Alto Saxophone and Piano by Luke Dahn (2008)
Duo for Baritone Saxophone and Piano by Walter Hartley (2008)
Fisherman of the Fragrant Harbor for Alto Saxophone and Piano by David DeBoor Canfield (2007)
Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet by Perry Goldstein (2007)
Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and Piano by David DeBoor Canfield (2006-7)
Arirang Variations for Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, and Piano by David Froom (2005)
Noir for Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, and Piano by Perry Goldstein (2005)
Prelude for Soprano Saxophone and Piano by Leonard Mark Lewis (2004)
Concerto Agrariana for Alto Saxophone and Band by John Cheetham (2004)
On My Mind…for Baritone Saxophone and String Trio by Ketty Nez (2004)
Barum and Bailey's Favorite March and The Melody Shop March for saxophone ensemble by Karl King/arr. Kevin Kastens (2003-4)
Martyrs for the Faith: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Symphonic Winds by David DeBoor Canfield (2003)
As in Stained Light for Alto Saxophone and Piano by Leonard Mark Lewis (2002)
Le petit duo for Alto Saxophone and Clarinet by David DeBoor Canfield (2001), written for Kenneth and Melanie Tse
Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano by John Cheetham (2001)
Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano by David DeBoor Canfield (2000)

External links
Kenneth Tse's official website
University of Iowa Saxophone Studio Web page

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<mask> (21 January 1928 – 7 March 2018) was an Argentine general who served as President of Argentina from 1 July 1982, to 10 December 1983. In 2010, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of persons suspected of opposing the government during the Dirty War. He was the dictator who ordered the destruction of all documentation on the disappeared. His only contribution to the rule of law was the handover of command to Raúl Alfonsín. Early life and family
<mask> was born in 1928 in Morón, which today is part of the Greater Buenos Aires area. His parents were Adelaida María (née Ramayón), of Gibraltarian and French descent, and <mask>, of Italian and German descent. He joined the Army Infantry at age 19.He studied at the Superior School of War and in Francoist Spain before being appointed head of the VI Infantry Regiment in 1964. He was married to Nilda Raquel Belén Etcheverry, who died in 2013. The couple had three children. Presidency

He was President of Argentina appointed by the military junta from July 1982 to December 1983, when democracy returned to Argentina. Political policy
Uncomfortable with the media, Bignone's press statements left doubts as to whether there would be an imminent call for elections. His loosening of certain free speech restrictions also put his regime's unpopularity in evidence and the newsstands brimmed with satirical publications. Humor, had its January 1983 issue confiscated after Army Chief of Staff, General Cristino Nicolaides, objected to caricaturist Andrés Cascioli's portrayals of the junta.Economic policy
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 installment guarantee program that shielded billions of private debt from the collapse of the peso, costing the treasury billions. He instituted controls over the facility, such as the indexation of payments, but this move and the rescission of Circular 1050 threw the banking sector against him; Cavallo and Dagnino Pastore were replaced in August. <mask>'s new President of the Central Bank, Julio González del Solar, undid many of these controls, transferring billions more in private foreign debt to the Central Bank, though he stopped short of reinstating the hated "1050." Six years of intermittent wage freezes had left real wages close to 40% lower than during Perón's tenure, leading to growing labor unrest. Bignone's decision to restore limited rights of speech and assembly, including the right to strike, led to increased strike activity. Saúl Ubaldini, the new leader of the reinstated CGT, Argentina's largest labor union, was particularly active.Bignone's new Economy Minister, Jorge Wehbe, a banking executive with previous experience in the post, reluctantly granted two large, mandatory wage increases in late 1982. Calls for immediate elections led, likewise, to frequent demonstrations at the President's executive offices, the Casa Rosada. One such protest, on 16 December, led to the death of a demonstrator. Democratic way out

Drawing a contrast between his position and the lukewarm reproach by others in his own party and in other parties, Raúl Alfonsín, the head of the centrist UCR's progressive wing who had also opposed the Falklands War when few others in Argentina did, earned his party's nomination in July. The convention was called only days after Bignone publicly announced the


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Presiding over a difficult six years, President Raúl Alfonsín advanced the Trial of the Juntas in 1985, proceedings which acquitted Bignone of responsibility, but left open the possibility of civil trials against him.These, however, were precluded by decrees signed by Alfonsín himself in early 1987, the result of pressure from the Armed Forces. Bignone published a memoir about his brief tenure, El último de facto (2003). It was condemned for his marginalizing of Dirty War abuses. In January 1999, the courts reopened trials related to the taking of children from disappeared women and placing them in families with ties to the government. In 2003 people in Argentina were outraged by comments of Bignone and two other generals defending their actions during the Dirty War, expressed in the film documentary, Escadrons de la mort: l'ecole francaise (2003); this was directed by French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin. President Nestor Kirchner "ordered the military to bring charges against the three for justifying the crimes of the dictatorship." Bignone was granted house arrest in October 2006, given his advanced age.He was arrested in March 2007 and taken into custody at a military base outside Buenos Aires as part of an investigation into past human rights abuses, including the atrocities at the Posadas Hospital and trafficking of infants born to and abducted from the roughly 500 pregnant women who were among the disappeared. These were ruled to have no statute of limitations owing their nature as crimes against humanity. On 20 April 2010, Bignone was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his involvement in the kidnapping,


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<mask> is a television producer/director and author of historical/crime/espionage novels set primarily in Britain during World War II and the Cold War. Biography
<mask> worked briefly in London publishing prior to becoming, by the mid-1980s, a documentary television producer at the newly created Channel 4. In 1993 he settled in New York, and in 1995 won a WH Smith Award for his third book Black Out. He went back into television in England in 1997, and by 1999 had dropped off the TV and books map completely. He returned in 2001 with Riptide (American title: Bluffing Mr. Churchill), which was snapped up by Columbia Pictures. For most of the 21st century, so far, he has tended to be elusive and itinerant, residing in England, the United States and Italy. He appeared in New York, in 2008, with a reading in Greenwich Village.[2] Earlier the same year he was named in the Daily Telegraph (London) as one of "50 Crime Writers To Read Before You Die". In October 2010 he read in Ottawa, Toronto, Portland and Seattle, ending up at the Mysterious Book Store in Tribeca, and later that year was named in the New York Times Reviews "Pick of the Year" for his novel A Lily of the Field. Many of the biography pages within <mask>'s books have a decidedly tongue-in-cheek bent, with hobbies listed as the "cultivation of the onion and obscure varieties of potato", or "growing leeks". Those close to him would stress that such descriptions are meant quite seriously. His author bio notes that "since 2000 he has lived in the high, wet hills of Derbyshire England, with frequent excursions into the high, dry hills of Arizona and Italy." Bibliography

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The novels in the Frederick Troy series share the eponymous protagonist Frederick (he doesn't like any form of his given name, preferring to be addressed by his surname) Troy, the younger son of a Russian immigrant father who has become a wealthy newspaper publisher and baronet. Defying class and family expectations, the independently wealthy Troy joins Scotland Yard, becoming an investigator on the "murder squad".The rights to the fourth novel in the series (Riptide) were purchased by Columbia Pictures several years ago. The rest have been optioned repeatedly, in both England and the US, but, so far, nothing has ever made it to the screen, large or small. The series, in published order:

 Black Out (1995),
The story begins during the last stages of the London Blitz in 1944. Sergent Troy is assigned to find out who's murdering German scientists who've been secretly smuggled out of Germany and into Britain. Later, Troy tracks his suspect to Berlin in 1948, during the Berlin Blockade. Along the way, he tangles with British and American spy agencies, a Russian spy and a British femme fatale. Old Flames (1996),
 Chief Inspector Troy, because he speaks Russian, is assigned to guard Russian Secretary-General Nikita Khrushchev, during his 1956 visit to Britain.Along with these duties, Troy investigates the death of an ex-navy diver during a curiously botched spy mission. A Little White Death (1998),
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 an apparent suicide (of the fictional Stephen Ward-analog character) was really a murder. A second apparent suicide thickens the plot. Most of the historical characters get fictional equivalents, a few appear as themselves, and Christine Keeler becomes a pair of sisters. In the closing Historical Note, however, <mask> explains his historical inspirations and cautions that "This is not a roman à clef." Concurrent with the scandal/spy/murder plot, <mask> interleaves some cultural history on the beginnings of 'swinging London'. The novel's title is a double entendre, referring both to the pills used in the second suspicious suicide and to Troy's life-and-career-threatening battle against tuberculosis.Riptide (2001),  (Published in the United States (2004) as Bluffing Mr. Churchill)
Lawton backtracks chronologically to the early days of World War II, before Black Out. The Americans, not yet in the war, send Calvin M. Cormack to London to find an agent fled from Germany and bring him in for debriefing. He is paired with MI5 officer Walter Stilton and takes Stilton's daughter Kitty as a lover, who is also seeing her ex boyfriend Sergeant Troy of Scotland Yard. When Stilton is killed, Cal joins with Troy to investigate the trail of murders and learn why the agent won't come in. Blue Rondo (2005) (Published in the United States as Flesh Wounds, )
This book opens at almost exactly the same point as Black Out, and then skips ten years beyond the end of Black Out to pick up the lives of characters who are only children in the first novel. In 1959 two of them have grown up to be East End gangsters trying to move into the West End, and one has become a

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Another "prequel" to Black Out, this time back to 1938. The main protagonist this time is Frederick Troy's older brother Rod, working as a reporter for his father's newspaper. Rod travels to Vienna, just in time to witness Kristallnacht. Returning to Britain, he is sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man because of his Austrian birth and failure to pursue naturalisation. During the Battle of Britain, he is freed to become a fighter pilot. Meanwhile, brother Sergeant Troy investigates the murders of several East End rabbis. The parallel stories eventually converge at the final denouement.A Lily of the Field (2010),
This novel tells two linked stories, differing in tone and structure, but heading to the same conclusion. The first part, "Audacity", is set in the years 1934–46 in Europe, and has only the briefest mention of Frederick Troy. It is, essentially, the back-story to all that follows. The second part, "Austerity", set in London in 1948, is a more familiar Inspector Troy murder investigation, that, almost inevitably, spills over into Cold War espionage. Friends and Traitors (2017),
It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Britain, is visiting Europe as part of a trip to celebrate his elder brother's birthday. After a concert in Vienna, he is approached


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Old Flames
Friends and Traitors
Blue Rondo / Flesh Wounds
A Little White Death

Joe Wilderness novels
 Then We Take Berlin (2013)
 The Unfortunate Englishman (2016)
 Hammer to Fall (2020)

Other fiction
 Sweet Sunday (2002)
 East of Suez, West of Charing Cross Road (included in Agents of Treachery anthology, Otto Penzler editor, 2010) . A comedy set during the Profumo affair when a junior army officer is mistaken for someone important and blackmailed. Bentinck's Agent (2013). Kindle Single. Non-fiction
1963 Five Hundred Days: History As Melodrama (1992)

Television
A Walk up 5th Avenue
Christians in Palestine
Free and Fair
25th Anniversary of the Mersey Poets (with Brian Patten)
Green Thoughts (with Gore Vidal)
O Superman (with Harold Pinter)

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<mask> (September 27, 1919 – September 17, 2011) was an American businessman and politician. He was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964, and served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1967 until 1985, following a defeat to Paul Simon. He was mentioned as a Republican presidential hopeful from 1968 through 1988. During his Senate career, <mask> concentrated on business and foreign relations. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Pensacola, the seat of Escambia County in far northwestern Florida, the son of Edward H<mask> and the former <mask>. His father, an Alabama native descended from illustrious colonial-era Mississippians and Virginians, was at various times an automobile salesman and bank cashier.His Illinois-born mother was a concert violinist. Edward was a son of <mask> <mask> and <mask> <mask> of the powerful Herndon family of Virginia. <mask> was a daughter of Phineas Fredrick <mask> and Belle Aschenbach. The family moved to Chicago when <mask> was an infant. As a child, he had entrepreneurial energy and held jobs while attending school. In the mid-1930s, his pluck brought him to the attention of his Sunday school teacher, Joseph McNabb, the president of Bell & Howell, then a small camera company. <mask> completed high school at New Trier High School.He entered the University of Chicago on a half tuition scholarship, and worked his way through college with several part-time jobs. He completed his degree in Economics in 1941.

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In the late 1950s, <mask> decided to enter politics. With the encouragement of then U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, <mask> helped to write Decisions for a Better America, which proposed a set of long-range goals for the Republican Party.He belonged to the moderate and liberal wing of the Republican party, led by Eisenhower during his presidency and later closely identified with New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. In 1958, <mask> served on the Rockefeller Foundation's Special Study Fund, essentially working as an informal advisor to Rockefeller's campaign for Governor of New York. <mask> first entered electoral politics with a run for governor of Illinois in 1964, which he narrowly lost to Democratic incumbent Otto Kerner. During his gubernatorial

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In 1966, <mask> ran for U.S. senator from Illinois. His 21-year-old daughter Valerie was murdered at the family home in September, late in the campaign.Her death was thought to have been caused by an intruder, but the crime was never solved despite a lengthy investigation. <mask> and his opponent both suspended campaigning for a couple of weeks following Valerie's death. He upset Democratic Senator Paul Douglas (a former professor of <mask>'s at the University of Chicago) with 56 percent of the vote. After <mask> appeared on the Television show Face The Nation on Sunday 15 January 1967 with the other newly elected Republican Senators, the then President Lyndon Johnson noted privately that he thought <mask> would make a fine president if the opportunity should ever arise. On 12 December 1967 Senator <mask> met with South Vietnamese President Thieu and assured him that "no responsible people in either the Democratic or the Republican Party favored US withdrawal from South Vietnam." In 1967, Senator <mask> introduced a bill to establish a program to stimulate production of low-cost housing. <mask>'s proposal was the first of its kind to provide home ownership to low-income families, and it received strong support from Republicans in both the House and the Senate, although it ultimately did not pass.When asked why he selected housing for his first major legislative proposal, <mask> said: "Of all the problems I ran across during three years of campaigning, first for the governorship and then for

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<mask> was a Christian Scientist. During World War II, he married Jeanne Valerie Dickerson. They had twin daughters, Valerie and Sharon (born 1944) and a son Roger (born 1946). After <mask>'s death in 1947, <mask> married

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1949 one of 10 outstanding young men of U.S. Jr. C. of C.
1955 World Trade award World Trade Award Com. 1956 Nat. Sales Execs. Mgmt.award
1962 Bus. Man of Year award Sat. Rev. 1962 Statesmanship award Harvard Bus. Sch. Assn., Chgo. 1962 Humanitarian Service award Abraham Lincoln Ctr.1986 Humanitarian of the Yr. award Save the Children Found. 1965 Top-Hat award Nat. Fedn. Bus. and Profl. Women's Clubs
1965 Bus. Adminstrn.award Drexel Inst. Tech. 1982 UNICEF World of Children award
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