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  Năm 1945, ông tham gia Vệ quốc quân, là chiến sĩ trinh sát Trung đoàn 101 (tiền thân là Trung đoàn Trần Cao Vân). Sau đó ông tham gia Thiếu sinh quân Liên khu IV, đoàn Văn công Liên khu IV.
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  Born in London, West attended Marlborough College before his national service spell in Trieste awakened a lifelong interest in Yugoslavia.
  
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  She has written three books. Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums and Patriotic Practices helps readers to identify, classify and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work to maintain powerful structures of inequity. Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall is a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U

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  Blendi Fevziu

  Blendi Fevziu ka lindur me 18 Maj 1969. Ai është drejtues i emisionit Opinion që në 31 Gusht 1997. Është diplomuar për letërsi dhe gjuhe shqipe në Universitetin e Tiranes me 1991. Në vitin 1989 ka qene pjesë e stafit te gazetës Studenti në Universitet. Me dhjetor 1990 dhe shkurt 1991 ka qene pjesëmarrës aktiv i Lëvizjes Studentore që solli ndryshimin e regjimit në Shqipëri. Në 5 Janar 1991 ka qene bashkëthemelues i gazetës Rilindja Demokratike, organi i pare i shtypit te lire pas thuajse 70 vitesh në Shqipëri.

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  Richard West

  There is more than one author with this name
  
  Richard West was a British journalist and author best known for his reporting of the Vietnam War and Yugoslavia.
  
  Born in London, West attended Marlborough College before his national service spell in Trieste awakened a lifelong interest in Yugoslavia.
  
  Starting off his journalistic career at the Manchester Guardian, West became a foreign correspondent in Yugoslavia, Africa, Central America and Indochina. Described by Neal Ascherson as the "paragon of the independent journalist for his generation", he would spend much of the next two decades in Vietnam, Africa and eastern Europe, where he was codenamned Agent Friday by Communist Poland's secret police. Among his books are The Making of the Prime Minis

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