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"ref": "1938 September 9, Russell B. Porter, “Unionists Battle Store Employes in San Francisco”, in New York Times, page 9",
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"ref": "1974 June 17, “Shooting the Moon”, in Time",
"text": "No one has ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi (\"Big Daddy\") Amin Dada of running a democracy. . . . In Kampala, the capital, much of the terror is committed by Big Daddy's personal goon squad, the 3,000-man Public Safety Unit.",
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"ref": "2003, Michael Upchurch, \"What's Cooking on Mindanao?\" (Review of Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn), New York Times, 5 Oct., p. A13",
"text": "But becoming the \"Spirit Father\" to a group of cave dwellers threatened by \"bandits, insurgent guerrillas\" and \"goon squads hired by greedy logging companies\" gives him a newfound purpose in life."
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