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Gringo Comes to Manila
Erik Guyot reports from the Philippines in 1987 about his source's attempt to help overthrow the president.
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The impious curiosity of archaeologists
Neil Silberman reports from Israel in 1985 about a struggle for political and spiritual power over excavation sites.
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Poking around Morelia’s garbage
Willy Foote looks into a conflict between Mexican garbage collectors in 1996.
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At both center and edge in the Strait of Hormuz
In Oman a decade ago, remembering everyday life at a global chokepoint
 • Scott Thos. Erich
ICWA@100: Visiting Mahatma Gandhi in colonial India
Phillips Talbot spends time with the visionary leader and his community of disciples in 1941.
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ICWA@100: Out of Ethiopia
Smith Hempstone takes an adventurous road trip from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in 1957.
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ICWA@100: The Students of Prague
Barbara Bright Novovitch takes the pulse of young people in Czechoslovakia in 1969 following the Soviet invasion.
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ICWA@100: Botswana experience
Casey Kelso on a press officer's guidance in 1992 and what can happen when you don't follow good local advice.
 • Casey Kelso
ICWA@100: The Communists lay siege to Beijing
Doak Barnett reports from inside the city in 1949 on its fall to the People's Liberation Army.
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ICWA@100: When democracy doesn’t work
Kim Conroy on a Honduran village's struggles to open its first health clinic in 1983
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ICWA@100: Affirmative actions
Richard Balzer looks at racism and resentment on a Massachusetts factory floor in 1974.
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ICWA@100: Reflections on the Vietnam War
Takashi Oka on tumult and corruption in 1960s South Vietnam
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