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On June 8, 1967, a Navy intelligence ship, the USS Liberty, was mistaken for an Egyptian warship and attacked by…
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Rafael Trujillo, El Jefe, ruled the Dominican Republic as dictator from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo gained prominence…
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In April and May of 1958, Indonesia went through a period of rebellion, as discontent on the peripheral islands, like…
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The shaky peace that had held in Vietnam since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 began to…