Alfred W. McCoy, the Glossary
Alfred William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is an American historian and educator.[1]
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91 relations: Air America (airline), American football, Association for Asian Studies, Australian National University, Đặng Văn Quang, Bachelor of Arts, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Cambodia, CBS News, CBS News Mornings, Central Intelligence Agency, Christic Institute, CIA drug trafficking allegations, Columbia University, Concord, Massachusetts, Corsican mafia, Covert operation, Crime, Law and Social Change, Democracy Now!, Doctor of Philosophy, European colonisation of Southeast Asia, Foreign policy of the United States, Fred Harvey Harrington, Fulbright Program, G. McMurtrie Godley, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Harold C. Conklin, Harper (publisher), Harper's Magazine, Haymarket Books, Henry Holt and Company, Heroin, History of Southeast Asia, History of the Philippines, Illegal drug trade, Iloilo, IMDb, John R.W. Smail, John Stapleton (Australian journalist), Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Kent School, Laos, Library of Congress, List of ambassadors of the United States to Laos, Margarita McCoy, Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, Massachusetts, Master of Arts, NBC, New York Post, ... Expand index (41 more) »
- Non-fiction writers about the French Connection
Air America (airline)
Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976.
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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Association for Asian Studies
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional association focusing on Asia and the study of Asia.
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Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.
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Đặng Văn Quang
Lieutenant General Đặng Văn Quang (21 June 1929 – 15 July 2011) popularly known as Fat Quang, was an officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam who served as a special advisor to President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu of South Vietnam.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) was a bureau within the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and a predecessor agency of the modern Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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CBS News Mornings
CBS News Mornings is an American early-morning news broadcast presented weekdays on the CBS television network.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Christic Institute
The Christic Institute was a public interest law firm founded in 1980 by Daniel Sheehan, his wife Sara Nelson, and their partner, William J. Davis, a Jesuit priest, after the successful conclusion of their work on the ''Silkwood'' case.
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CIA drug trafficking allegations
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of involvement in the trafficking of illicit drugs.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Concord, Massachusetts
Concord is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Corsican mafia
The Corsican mafia is a collective of criminal groups originating from Corsica.
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Covert operation
A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible.
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Crime, Law and Social Change
Crime, Law and Social Change is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering criminology from a global perspective, with a particular focus on "financial crime, corruption, terrorism and organizational crime".
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.
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European colonisation of Southeast Asia
The first phase of European colonisation of Southeast Asia took place throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Foreign policy of the United States
The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community".
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Fred Harvey Harrington
Fred Harvey Harrington (June 24, 1912 – April 8, 1995) was an American educator and the 17th president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1962 to 1970. Alfred W. McCoy and Fred Harvey Harrington are university of Wisconsin–Madison faculty.
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Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. Alfred W. McCoy and Fulbright Program are Fulbright alumni.
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G. McMurtrie Godley
George McMurtrie Godley (1917–1999) was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Laos 1969-1973, at the height of the Vietnam War.
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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib is a 2007 documentary film, directed by Rory Kennedy, that examines the events of the 2004 Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal.
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Harold C. Conklin
Harold Colyer Conklin (April 27, 1926 – February 18, 2016) was an American anthropologist who conducted extensive ethnoecological and linguistic field research in Southeast Asia (particularly the Philippines) and was a pioneer of ethnoscience, documenting indigenous ways of understanding and knowing the world. Alfred W. McCoy and Harold C. Conklin are American expatriates in the Philippines and Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni.
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Harper (publisher)
Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.
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Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.
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Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books is a left-wing non-profit, independent book publisher based in Chicago.
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Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City.
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Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
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History of Southeast Asia
The history of Southeast Asia covers the people of Southeast Asia from prehistory to the present in two distinct sub-regions: Mainland Southeast Asia (or Indochina) and Maritime Southeast Asia (or Insular Southeast Asia).
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History of the Philippines
The history of the Philippines dates from the earliest hominin activity in the archipelago at least by 709,000 years ago.
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Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.
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Iloilo
Iloilo, officially the Province of Iloilo (Kapuoran sang Iloilo; Kapuoran kang Iloilo;; Província de Iloílo), is a province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
John R.W. Smail
John Richard Wharton Smail (born in Cairo in 1930 – died October 20, 2002) was a University of Wisconsin professor of history, best-known for arguing for an autonomous history of Southeast Asia, i.e. "viewing Southeast Asia in its own terms." He was born in Egypt under British protectorate, the family moved to the United States when Smail was nine years old. Alfred W. McCoy and John R.W. Smail are university of Wisconsin–Madison faculty.
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John Stapleton (Australian journalist)
John Stapleton (born 21 June 1952) is an Australian journalist.
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Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of social and behavioral sciences.
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Kent School
Kent School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Kent, Connecticut.
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Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of ambassadors of the United States to Laos
This is a list of United States ambassadors to Laos.
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Margarita McCoy
Margarita Piel McCoy (May 25, 1923 — March 31, 2016) was an American urban planner and educator.
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Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos
At 7:15 p.m. on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law, stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and the sectarian "rebellion" of the Muslim Independence Movement (MIM).
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
New York Post
The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.
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Ngô Du
Ngô Du (1925–1977) was a Lieutenant general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967.
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Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975.
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Opium
Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.
Ouane Rattikone
Major-General Ouane Rattikone (Ouan Rathikoun), a Laotian senior military officer, was the commander-in-chief of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (French: Forces Armées du Royaume – FAR), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and the Kingdom of Laos, during the 1960s.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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People Power Revolution
The People Power Revolution, also known as the EDSA Revolution or the February Revolution, was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines, mostly in Metro Manila, from February 22 to 25, 1986.
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Philippine National Book Awards
The Philippine National Book Awards, or simply the National Book Awards, is a Philippine literary award sponsored by the National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics' Circle (MCC).
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Piels Beer
Piels Beer, also called Piel Bros.
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ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Rowing (sport)
Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.
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Scholastic wrestling
Scholastic wrestling, sometimes referred to as folkstyle wrestling and commonly known as simply wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling at the high school and middle school levels in the United States.
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South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.
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SUNY Press
The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.
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Taxi to the Dark Side
Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman.
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Temario Rivera
Temario "Temy" C. Rivera is a Filipino educator.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
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The Nation
The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a 1972 non-fiction book on heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia and the CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade.
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Today (American TV program)
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.
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Trafficante crime family
The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa crime family or the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida.
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Trần Thiện Khiêm
Trần Thiện Khiêm (15 December 1925 – 24 June 2021) was a South Vietnamese soldier and politician, who served as a General in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) during the Vietnam War.
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Trần Văn Khiêm
Trần Văn Khiêm is the younger brother of Madame Ngô Đình Nhu, the former First Lady of South Vietnam, and a South Vietnamese politician, lawyer and public servant.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations is a standing committee of the United States Senate.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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University of Wisconsin Press
The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Urban planner
An urban planner (also known as town planner) is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.
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Vang Pao
Vang Pao (RPA: Vaj Pov, Lao: ວັງປາວ; 8 December 1929 – 6 January 2011) was a major general in the Royal Lao Army and later a leader of the Hmong American community in the United States.
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Varsity letter
A varsity letter (or monogram) is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities.
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War on Terror (film)
War on Terror is an Austrian documentary film about the "War on Terror" initiated by U.S. president George W. Bush in 2001.
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Wilbur Cross Medal
The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement, is an award by the Yale University Graduate School Alumni Association to recognize "...distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service...".
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Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the graduate school of Yale University.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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1986 Philippine presidential election
The 1986 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on February 7, 1986.
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See also
Non-fiction writers about the French Connection
- Alfred W. McCoy
- Claire Sterling
- Robin Moore
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy
Also known as Alfred mccoy, Dr Alfred W. McCoy.
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