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Hi! Can You tell me althought one different between Interpol notices and diffusions. Oktan (talk) 17:23, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

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Can you explain to me the hierarchy of editors on Wikipedia. The opinions of some users seem to prevail over the opinions of others. Who are these "super editors" and how is this static earned/awarded? Jwyllie (talk) 09:37, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

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August 2013 WikiProject Christianity Newsletter

From the Editor

Welcome to the August 2013 issue of the WikiProject Christianity newsletter. We focus on the historical Jesus and reflect on the last month.

The project has another featured picture, The ruins of Holyrood Chapel, a digitisation of an oil-on-canvas painting. Our top-importance article, Jesus, has been nominated for Featured Article status, the discussion can be seen here; Knights of Colombus has also been nominated as a FAC.

Ecgbert (bishop) and Church architecture in Scotland have both this month achieved Good Article status.

Our project had several of its articles featured in the main page DYK section, including Hinckley Priory, Little Chapel, St Peter's Church, Ropsley, Chip Ingram, St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen, Great George Street Congregational Church, St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill and Bunge church.

Our thanks go to all of those who have worked to achieve these article milestones.

Church of the month This image, of Maillezais Cathedral and created by Selbymay was this month promoted to featured picture status.

Membership report We would like to welcome our newest members, Thechristophermorris, Psmidi and Jchthys. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.

Focus on... THE HISTORICAL JESUS

What was Jesus like? What did he preach? Did he claim to be the Messiah? Did he predict an apocalypse? What can we know about him outside a religious context? The Historical Jesus article discusses what can be known about Jesus with various degrees of probability. While scholars agree on the over all flow and outline of Jesus' life (his baptism by John, debated Jewish authorities, healings, and his crucifixion by Pilate) they have built various and diverging portraits of the rest of his life. These range from minimalist portraits that accept very little of the gospel accounts to maximalists who accept most of the accounts as historical.

The portraits of Jesus have at times been unwitting reflections of the researchers themselves, and Crossan once quipped that some authors "do autobiography and call it biography". However, the study of historical Jesus has made one thing clear: there is so much to learn about Jesus that the more one looks, the more there is to discover.

From the bookshelf Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of His Life and Teaching by Maurice Casey 2010 ISBN 0-567-64517-7

In this book Maurice Casey not only draws on his special expertise in the Aramaic traditions and the Q source, but provides a comprehensive review of the various approaches to the historical Jesus.

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Gaddi Holguin Vasquez (born January 22, 1955) was the 8th United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, in Rome, Italy. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 29, 2006. Vasquez was sworn into office on September 7, 2006, by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and served in the position until 2009. Prior to that, he was the first person of Hispanic ancestry to head the Peace Corps.

Early life and education
Born in Carrizo Springs, Texas, Vasquez is a Mexican-American and the son of migrant workers. Vasquez grew up in poverty. He kept a photo of him and his father on his desk at the Peace Corps. "I have this here as a reminder every day," said Vasquez. "I lived in Third World conditions without having to go overseas." Vasquez's family lived in a trailer in Watsonville, California, and worked as migrant workers until Vasquez went to first grade. "I remember that when I was very young, people who were homeless - they were called hobos then - would come up and bang on the door and literally ask for a meal. My mother would tell them to wait on the porch or wait outside and she would cook them a burrito, notwithstanding our own limitations. I watched this over and over again," he said, so much so that it became known, "If you needed a meal, go down to the Vasquez house." The family moved to Orange County, California, where his father went to work in a furniture factory in Los Angeles and eventually to the Apostolic Church in Orange, where he served as Pastor until his passing. Vasquez went to Orange High School in Orange, to Santa Ana College and then on to the University of Redlands. "I was the first one to graduate college," Vasquez said.

Vasquez has been awarded five honorary doctorate degrees and has served as a Trustee/Professor at Chapman University, Orange, California. He has served as commencement speaker at Chapman University, Vanguard University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, James Madison University, University of La Verne, University of San Diego, California State University, Fullerton, California State University San Marcos, Walsh University, Houghton College, University of Redlands, Concordia University, Irvine and Chaminade University in Hawaii.

Orange County official
Vasquez worked in the public sector for 22 years before his Peace Corps nomination, starting as a police officer for the city of Orange, California. He later worked as deputy appointments secretary for Governor George Deukmejian, followed by service as Chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Vasquez resigned this position in 1994 after the county's bankruptcy. The Orange County bankruptcy changed the course of his political ambitions, eventually leading Vasquez to reach out to his Republican colleagues for help in re-creating his career.

In 1988 Vasquez addressed the Republican national convention and said that Hispanics shouldn't support Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis for President just because Dukakis spoke Spanish. The Democratic nominee spoke Spanish, Vasquez said, but because of his liberal policies, "he doesn't speak our language."

Controversy over appointment as Director
Appointed as Director of Peace Corps under George W. Bush, Vasquez had donated $100,000 to Bush's campaign and was criticized by former Volunteers for lacking experience with, or previous membership in, Peace Corps. Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post and New York Times editorialized against Vasquez's nomination and returned Peace Corps volunteers signed a petition opposing his nomination. However Vasquez cleared the United States Senate Foreign Relations committee by a vote of 14–4, and was accepted in the full Senate on a voice vote.

Accomplishments as Director
Vasquez's major initiatives and accomplishments as Peace Corps Director include: an agreement with Mexico in 2003 to host volunteers, emphasis on recruitment of minorities and of community college graduates, upgrading Peace Corps' infrastructure, especially IT upgrades in the online application tracking process, the Volunteer Delivery System, an emphasis on safety and security of volunteers (including the creation of a Situation Room at Peace Corps Headquarters), modifying Peace Corps' "Five Year Rule" for employment, and the expansion of the Peace Corps to one of its highest levels in 30 years. Vasquez visited 60 countries during his tenure as Director, meeting with volunteers in the field to advance the agency's mission and goals of promoting world peace and friendship.

Minority recruitment
Vasquez placed a high priority on recruitment of minorities. During his confirmation hearings Vasquez said "We all recognize that the face of America looks vastly different today than 40 years ago - or even 10 years ago. In step with those changes, I consider it a high priority to expand the diversity of the Peace Corps so that it becomes a true reflection of America. Diversity of ethnic backgrounds, life experiences and beliefs has strengthened our country in countless ways.  And in doing so we achieve an opportunity to engage a broader segment of the American population in one of our nation's greatest programs." Vasquez had a personal experience when he was visiting Morocco as Peace Corps Director that brought home to him the importance of his diversity initiatives. A young man stopped Vasquez and said, "You don't look like an American." And Vasquez answered, "What do you mean, I don't look like an American? Why do you say I don't look like an American?" He said, "The color of your skin. You don't look like an American." And I said, "Well, my grandparents came from Mexico to the United States, pursuing dreams and opportunities." By the end of Vasquez's tenure, 16 percent of the 7,810 volunteers were minorities — the highest percentage since the agency began collecting data on volunteer diversity.

National Call to Service program
Portions of the sometimes controversial expansion were successfully challenged by the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer community when former volunteers and the National Peace Corps Association raised objections to the continued inclusion of Peace Corps in the National Call to Service program, which had been used to allow military service members with at least three years and three months of military service completed, to finish their service obligation in the Peace Corps. Vasquez argued unsuccessfully for continued inclusion of the Peace Corps in that program, and the Peace Corps was removed from the National Call to Service program on December 22, 2005, when the United States Senate completed congressional action on the Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006.

Political briefings at Peace Corps Headquarters
On July 24, 2007, the Washington Post reported that during the tenure of Gaddi Vasquez as Peace Corps Director a "general political briefing" occurred at the Peace Corps headquarters after the 2002 midterm elections. Senator Joseph Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is seeking to determine whether the meetings complied with Hatch Act of 1939 that bars the use of federal resources—including office buildings, phones and computers—for partisan purposes. On July 25, 2007, in Senate subcommittee hearings chaired by Senator Chris Dodd, Peace Corps Director Ron Tschetter disclosed that approximately fifteen Peace Corps officials including then Director Gaddi Vasquez attended one of the political briefings at Peace Corps Headquarters. In testimony before the committee, Tschetter said that he did not condone the meetings and that in his opinion they should not have happened. Dodd concluded by saying that "The reputation of this institution suffers when that happens. We have a reputation and we have a good one over the years and to have it soiled because people want to turn it into a political operation is something that I am not going to tolerate at all and I will call for heads if there are still people there involved in this. They should know better than this, to engage in that kind of activity."

Ambassador to FAO
Vasquez resigned as Peace Corps Director September 7, 2006, after he was confirmed as the new United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome, Italy. "The first day I went to work at the U.N., I was led into the governing council's meeting room for my first meeting," said Vasquez. "You see the nameplates around the table – France. U.K. Italy. United States of America. That's one of those moments you stop in your tracks and reflect on where you've been and what you're doing," Vasquez said. "I am fortunate, and blessed."

To publicize work done by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the World Food Programme to help reduce poverty and make agriculture more productive, Ambassador Vasquez accompanied journalists on media tours to Mali in December, 2006 and to Guatemala and Honduras in May, 2007. His trips aim to increase visibility for the anti-hunger efforts of the United States and the international community around the world.

Vasquez has also spoken out on hunger to groups in the United States. In an address to the Orange Rotarians in Orange County, California on January 24, 2008, Vasquez talked about the $1 billion that the United States spends on food aid every year and how part of Vasquez's job is to make sure that money is spent as wisely as possible. "Over 840 million people suffer from chronic malnutrition," Vasquez said. "My hope is to raise your awareness. Consider how you can contribute to this effort."

The Daily Titan reported on April 21, 2008, that Vasquez had been the keynote speaker at the 'Connecting Worlds" conference at California State Fullerton speaking to about 250 conference members about global hunger. Vasquez said his life had been transformed while Director of the Peace Corps by the things he had witnessed traveling all over the world and recounted that once while in the Caribbean he had encountered a boy to whom he gave a piece of candy. The boy broke the candy in three, ate one piece and sold the other two. "This is the desperation some parts of the world are reaching," Vasquez said.

In October 2008, Vasquez visited Colombia accompanied by seven Latin American journalists. Vasquez visited a small sausage factory built with support from USAID that now employs 12 people and is providing food to the community. "It's a small thing but very significant, because it is sustainable entrepreneurship and is providing jobs," Vasquez said.

Honors and awards

 * Outstanding Alumni Award by the American Association of Community Colleges
 * Coro Foundation Crystal Eagle Award
 * Marine Corps Scholarship Fund Globe and Anchor Award
 * Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce Award for Community Leadership
 * Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award
 * B'nai B'rith Award for Leadership and Community Service
 * City of Orange - Citizen of the Year 2012
 * City of Orange - Legacy Award - City of Orange Police Department
 * Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce - Lifetime Achievement Award - 2013
 * City of Orange Community Foundation - 2012 Legacy Award
 * California Boys State - Hall of Fame - 2013
 * Santa Ana College Foundation - Hall of Fame
 * Orange High School - Hall of Fame
 * McPherson Award - American Council of Young Political Leaders
 * Salvation Army - William Booth Award
 * Ellis Island Medal of Honor - 2014
 * Hispanics in Energy - Legacy Award - 2014
 * Distinguished Fellow - University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology 2013–14
 * The President's Award - National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund - 2017
 * Constitutional Rights Foundation Award - 2015
 * Latino Leaders Network - Eagle Leadership Award - 2016
 * Salvation Army - The Others Award
 * The Latino Coalition - 2018 Leadership Award
 * Global Leadership Award - The Pat Brown Institute for Public Policy - 2019
 * Orange County Influencers Leadership Award - Institute for Community Impact - 2019
 * Orange County Distinguished Arts and Business Leader Award - The Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts - 2019
 * Orange County 500 - The Orange County Business Journal
 * United States Hispanic Leadership Institute - National Hispanic Hero Award - 2023

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Hero of the Soviet Union

The title Hero of the Soviet Union (Герой Советского Союза) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society. The title was awarded both to civilian and military persons.

Overview
The award was established on 16 April 1934, by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. The first recipients of the title originally received only the Order of Lenin, the highest Soviet award, along with a certificate (грамота, gramota) describing the heroic deed from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Because the Order of Lenin could be awarded for deeds not qualifying for the title of hero, and to distinguish heroes from other Order of Lenin holders, the Gold Star medal was introduced on 1 August 1939. Earlier heroes were retroactively eligible for these items.

A hero could be awarded the title again for a subsequent heroic feat with an additional Gold Star medal and certificate. The practice of awarding additional Orders of Lenin when the title was awarded multiple times was abolished by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1988 during perestroika.

Forty-four foreign citizens were awarded the title.

The title was also awarded posthumously, though often without the actual Gold Star medal presented.

The title could be revoked only by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

Most Soviet-bloc countries followed the Soviet example and instituted their own "Hero" awards. The Soviet-style "Hero" title is still used both in surviving current Communist states such as Cuba and in some non-Communist post-Soviet countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and others.

Privileges
Individuals who received the award were entitled to special privileges, including:

 * A pension with survivor benefits in the event of the death of the title holder.
 * Priority on the housing list with 50% rent reduction, tax exempt and an additional 45 m2 in living space.
 * Annual round-trip first class airline ticket
 * Free local public transportation
 * Free annual visit to sanatorium or rest home
 * Medical benefits
 * Entertainment benefits

History
In total, during the existence of the USSR, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to 12,777 people (excluding 72 stripped of the title for defamatory acts and 13 awards annulled as unwarranted), including 154 people who received the award twice (nine posthumously), three who received it three times, and two who received it four times. Ninety-five women were awarded the title. Among the Heroes of the Soviet Union, 44 people are citizens of foreign states. The great majority of them received it during World War II (11,635 Heroes of the Soviet Union, 101 twice Heroes, three thrice Heroes, and two four-time Heroes). Eighty-five people (28 posthumously) were awarded the title for actions related to the Soviet-Afghan War, which lasted from 1979 until 1989.

The first recipients of the award were the pilots Anatoly Liapidevsky (certificate number one), Sigizmund Levanevsky, Vasily Molokov, Mavriky Slepnyov, Nikolai Kamanin, Ivan Doronin, and Mikhail Vodopianov, who participated in the successful aerial search and rescue of the crew of the steamship Cheliuskin, which sank in Arctic waters, crushed by ice fields, on 13 February 1934. Valery Chkalov, who made the first-ever Trans-polar flight, was awarded the title on 24 July 1936. Valentina Grizodubova, a female pilot, was the first woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union (2 November 1938) for her international women's record for a straight-line distance flight. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a Soviet partisan, was the first woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II (February 16, 1942), posthumously.

In addition, over 100 people received the award twice. A second Hero title, either Hero of the Soviet Union or Hero of Socialist Labour entitled the recipient to have a bronze bust of his or her likeness with a commemorative inscription erected in his or her hometown.

Fighter pilots Aleksandr Pokryshkin and Ivan Kozhedub were three times Heroes of the Soviet Union. A third award entitled the recipient to have their bronze bust erected on a columnar pedestal in Moscow, near the Palace of the Soviets, but the palace was never built.

After his release from serving a 20-year sentence in a Mexican prison for the assassination of Leon Trotsky, Ramón Mercader moved to the Soviet Union in 1961 and as Ramon Lopez was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Hero of the Soviet Union medal "for the special deed" by KGB head Alexander Shelepin.

The only individuals to receive the title four times were Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev. The original statute of the Hero of the Soviet Union, however, did not provide for a fourth title; its provisions allowed for a maximum of three awards regardless of later deeds. Both Zhukov and Brezhnev received their fourth titles under controversial circumstances. Namely, Zhukov was awarded a fourth title in direct violation of the statute. He was awarded the fourth time "for his large accomplishments" on the occasion of his 60th birthday on December 1, 1956. There is some speculation that Zhukov's fourth Hero medal was for his participation in the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria in 1953, but this was not entered in the records. Brezhnev's four awards further eroded the prestige of the award because they were all birthday gifts, on the occasions of his 60th, 70th, 72nd and 75th birthdays. Such practices halted in 1988 due to a decision of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, which formally ended it. By the 1970s, the award had been somewhat devalued. Important political and military persons had been awarded it on the occasions of their birthdays rather than for any immediate heroic activity. All Soviet cosmonauts, starting from Yuri Gagarin, as well as foreign citizens from non-capitalist countries who participated in the Soviet space program as cosmonauts, received a Hero award for each flight, but no more than twice.

Apart from individuals, the title was also awarded to twelve cities (Hero City) as well as the fortress of Brest (Hero-Fortress) for collective heroism during the War.

Later recipients
The last recipient of the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" was a Soviet diver, Captain of the 3rd rank Leonid Mikhailovich Solodkov on 24 December 1991 for his leadership and participation in a series of unprecedented extreme depth diving experiments. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, this title was succeeded in Russia by the title "Hero of the Russian Federation", in Ukraine by "Hero of Ukraine" and in Belarus by "Hero of Belarus". Azerbaijan's successor order is that of National Hero of Azerbaijan and Armenia's own hero medal is that of National Hero of Armenia, both modeled on the Soviet one.

Single award

 * Hamazasp Babadzhanian – future Chief Marshal of the Tank and Armored Troops, for actions near Stanislav
 * Oleg Babak – last posthumous recipient to die in the line of duty.
 * Mikhail Devyataev – escaped from a forced-labor camp at Peenemünde with crucial intelligence on German rocket programs.
 * Andrei Durnovtsev – pilot who dropped the Tsar Bomba
 * Yuri Gagarin – first human to fly in space.
 * Pavel Grachev – division commander in Afghanistan.
 * Ivan Kharchenko – neutralized more than 50,000 explosive items during and after World War II.
 * Viktor Kibenok – First responding firefighter to the Chernobyl Disaster. Later died of radiation sickness.
 * Valentin Kotyk – Youngest recipient (age 14). Posthumously awarded after being killed in combat during the Great Patriotic War
 * Vladimir Konovalov – submarine commander; sank the German ship Goya.
 * Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya – the first woman awarded the title during World War II.
 * Alexander Krivets – participant in the Soviet partisan movement during World War II, commander of the Shchors partisan detachment.
 * Matvey Kuzmin – oldest recipient; led a Nazi division to an ambush in Malkino.
 * Nikolai Kuznetsov – intelligence officer responsible for the kidnappings and assassinations of several high-ranking Nazis.
 * Lydia Litvyak – World War II fighter pilot and the world's top female ace.
 * Alexander Marinesko – the most successful Soviet submarine commander in terms of gross register tonnage (GRT) sunk.
 * Alexander Matrosov – posthumously awarded for blocking an enemy machine-gun with his own body.
 * Nikolai Melnik – Soviet pilot known for placing radiation sensors at the Chernobyl's Nuclear Power Plant, Reactor 4, during the 1986 explosion.
 * Aliya Moldagulova – sniper who led her brigade after suffering high casualties
 * Pore Mosulishvili – Soviet Soldier and member of the Italian resistance.
 * Ivan Panfilov – Soviet general. Killed in action during the Battle of Moscow. The 8th Guards Rifle Division of the Red Army was named in his honor.
 * Lyudmila Pavlichenko – highest scoring female sniper.
 * Yakov Pavlov – commanded the defenders of the building named after him in Stalingrad.
 * Vladimir Pravik – Firefighter that responded to the Chernobyl Disaster, and later died of radiation sickness.
 * Nikolay Pukhov – Colonel General in World War II and the first commander of the 8th Tank Army.
 * Endel Puusepp – Soviet World War II bomber pilot.
 * Otto Schmidt – scientist and explorer of the Arctic.
 * Ivan Sidorenko – One of the top snipers of World War II, with over 500 kills.
 * Richard Sorge – Soviet spy, reported from Japanese information the exact date that Operation Barbarossa would begin.
 * Joseph Stalin – General Secretary of the Communist Party (1922–1953) and Head of Government as Prime Minister of the USSR (1941–1953).
 * Leonid Telyatnikov – Head of the fire department at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
 * Valentina Tereshkova – first woman to fly in space.
 * Michael Tsiselsky – Soviet naval pilot during World War II.
 * Zhambyl Tulaev – Soviet sniper, killed 313 German soldiers.
 * Dmitriy Ustinov – Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984.
 * Vasily Zaytsev – sniper who killed 225 at the Battle of Stalingrad; his achievements are dramatized in the film Enemy at the Gates.
 * Viktor Zholudev – posthumously awarded for leadership during Operation Bagration
 * Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov, and Ilya Krichevsky – Posthumously awarded for being killed while attempting to block IFVs from reaching the White House during the August Coup
 * Leonid Solodkov – Last recipient of the award before it was succeeded by the Hero of the Russian Federation award

Two times awarded

 * Ivan Konev – Marshal of the Soviet Union and Commander of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Front during World War II.
 * Ivan Bagramyan – Marshal of the Soviet Union
 * Konstantin Rokossovsky – Marshal of the Soviet Union and Commander of the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Front during World War II.
 * Hazi Aslanov – Major General of armored troops during World War II.
 * Talgat Bigeldinov – Il-2 during World War II and the only Kazakh who was twice awarded the title.
 * Vasily Chuikov – General largely responsible for the victory at Stalingrad and attacking Berlin.
 * Oleksiy Fedorov – organized underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
 * Dmitry Glinka – flying ace with over 50 shootdowns
 * Aleksei Leonov – cosmonaut who made the world's first spacewalk in 1965.
 * Vasily Petrov – Major who lost both hands during the second World War.
 * Pyotr Klimuk – Cosmonaut, former head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
 * Vladimir Kokkinaki – Famous test pilot and record breaker.
 * Vladimir Komarov – Cosmonaut, second award posthumous after his death onboard Soyuz 1.
 * Sydir Kovpak – partisan leader in Ukraine.
 * Boris Safonov – World War II naval pilot and flying ace
 * Nelson Stepanyan – World War II ground-attack pilot.
 * Vladimir Solovyov – Cosmonaut, former director of Mir and last man on Salyut 7.
 * Amet-khan Sultan – World War II fighter ace and test pilot.
 * Semyon Timoshenko – military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army, Marshal of the Soviet Union and People's Commissar of State for National Defense.
 * Aleksandr Vasilevsky – Marshal of the Soviet Union

Three times awarded

 * Semyon Budyonny – Military Commander, 1st Cavalry Army in the Civil War and later of the Army Cavalry Commands, also Marshal of the Soviet Union and from 1937 to 1940, Commanding Officer, Moscow Military District.
 * Ivan Kozhedub – highest-scoring Soviet fighter pilot
 * Alexander Pokryshkin – World War II fighter pilot

Four times awarded

 * Leonid Brezhnev – First Secretary, later General Secretary, of the CPSU (1964–82), and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1960–64 and 1977-82), also awarded one Hero of Socialist Labour; this last feat was the subject of numerous Russian jokes. Also Marshal of the Soviet Union.
 * Georgy Zhukov – Military commander and politician credited with many of the most significant Soviet victories of World War II, Commander of the First Belorussian Front and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Foreign recipients (all single awards)

 * 🇦🇫 Abdul Ahad Momand – first Afghan cosmonaut
 * 🇩🇿 Ahmed Ben Bella – first president of Algeria
 * 🇧🇬 Zachari Zachariev – International Brigades pilot under pseudonym Turk Halil Ekrem, awarded 30 December 1936
 * 🇧🇬 Georgi Ivanov – first Bulgarian cosmonaut
 * 🇧🇬 Todor Zhivkov – Communist president of Bulgaria
 * 🇧🇬 Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov – second Bulgarian cosmonaut
 * 🇧🇬 Vladimir Zaimov – Soviet spy in Bulgaria, awarded on the 30th anniversary of his death in 1972
 * 🇨🇺 Fidel Castro – leader of the Cuban communist government
 * 🇨🇺 Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez – first African descendant and Cuban cosmonaut
 * Josef Buršík – for heroism during the liberation of Kyiv, awarded on 21 December 1943, after the occupation of Czechoslovakia he gave the award back
 * Otakar Jaroš – for heroism in the Battle of Sokolovo, posthumously awarded on 17 April 1943 as the first foreign soldier
 * Ján Nálepka (Slovak) – awarded in memoriam on 2 May 1945
 * Vladimír Remek – first Czechoslovak in space and first cosmonaut who wasn't a citizen of the Soviet Union or United States
 * Antonín Sochor – for heroism during the liberation of Kyiv, awarded on 21 December 1943
 * Ludvík Svoboda – communist president of Czechoslovakia and army general, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps
 * Gustáv Husák (Slovak) – communist president of Czechoslovakia
 * Stěpan Vajda (Rusyn) – for heroism during the liberation of Poland, awarded in memoriam on 10 August 1945
 * Richard Tesařík – for heroism during the liberation of Kyiv, awarded 21 December 1943
 * Abdel Hakim Amer – Egyptian military officer, and member of the Free Officers movement
 * Gamal Abdel Nasser – One of the two principal leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and President of Egypt (1956–1970)
 * 🇫🇷 Jean-Loup Chrétien – first French cosmonaut (later served as a NASA astronaut)
 * 🇫🇷 Marcel Albert – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
 * 🇫🇷 Jacques André – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
 * 🇫🇷 Roland de la Poype – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
 * 🇫🇷 Marcel Lefèvre – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
 * Sigmund Jähn – the first German cosmonaut
 * Walter Ulbricht – East German leader
 * Erich Honecker – East German leader
 * Erich Mielke – East German head of the Stasi
 * Flag of Germany (1935–1945).svg Fritz Schmenkel – German communist who deserted to Soviet troops in November 1941 and became a partisan, killed 22 February 1944, posthumously awarded 1964
 * 🇭🇺 Bertalan Farkas – first Hungarian cosmonaut
 * 🇭🇺 János Kádár – Hungarian politician
 * 🇮🇳 Rakesh Sharma – first Indian cosmonaut
 * 🇮🇹 Primo Gibelli – Italian communist and Spanish Republican Air Force aviator, posthumous
 * 🇲🇳 Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa – first Mongolian cosmonaut
 * 🇵🇱 Władysław Wysocki – Polish officer from the battle of Lenino
 * 🇵🇱 Juliusz Hibner – Polish communist and officer from the battle of Lenino
 * 🇵🇱 Aniela Krzywoń – Polish soldier
 * 🇵🇱 Mirosław Hermaszewski – first citizen of Poland to travel into space
 * 🇷🇴 Dumitru Prunariu – first Romanian cosmonaut
 * 🇪🇸 Ramón Mercader – assassinated Leon Trotsky in 1940
 * 🇪🇸 Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri – son of the Spanish communist leader Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, killed in the Battle of Stalingrad while fighting for the Red Army
 * Muhammed Faris – first Syrian cosmonaut
 * Phạm Tuân – first Vietnamese cosmonaut

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Daniel F. Galouye

Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels.

Born in New Orleans, Galouye (pronounced Gah-lou-ey ) graduated from Louisiana State University (B.A.) and then worked as a reporter for several newspapers. During World War II, he served in the US Navy as an instructor and test pilot, receiving injuries that led to later health problems. On December 26, 1945, he married Carmel Barbara Jordan. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1967, he was on the staff of The States-Item. He lived in New Orleans but also had a summer home across Lake Pontchartrain at St. Tammany Parish in Covington, Louisiana.

Richard Dawkins professes to be a fan of his works, including Counterfeit World, which inspired him to think about the concept of simulated universes.

Novels and stories
Galouye's first published fiction, the novelette Rebirth, appeared in the March 1952 issue of Imagination. His work appeared in many magazines during this era including Galaxy Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Between 1961 and 1973, Galouye wrote five novels, notably Simulacron Three, basis of the movie The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and the German TV miniseries World on a Wire (1973) (directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder). His first novel, Dark Universe (1961) was nominated for a Hugo.

According to his obituary in the New Orleans States-Item, Galouye...
 * ... was a Navy pilot during WWII from 1942 to 1946. He graduated from Pensacola Naval Air School, held the rank of lieutenant and was for a time during his service years in charge of a training school in Hawaii for Navy airmen. Immediately after release from the Navy, he began his career with The States-Item as a reporter, then as a copy editor and joined the editorial department in 1956. He later was named associate editor of that department, retiring in 1967. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carmel Barbara Jordan Galouye; two daughters, Mrs. Gerald Johan Zomerdijk of Zaandam, the Netherlands, and Mrs. Joseph Edward Ingraham of Covington; and five grandchildren.

His retirement was due to failing health, which was in turn related to injuries sustained during his Navy service. His health continued to decline until his early death at age 56. He died in New Orleans' Veteran's Hospital and is interred at Covington Cemetery #1 in Covington.

Awards
In 2007, Galouye was the recipient of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, which is co-sponsored by the heirs of Paul Linebarger (who wrote as Cordwainer Smith) and Readercon. The jury for this award recognizes a deceased genre writer whose work should be "rediscovered" by the readers of today, and that newly rediscovered writer is a deceased guest of honor at the following year's Readercon. Galouye was named 6 July 2007 by Barry N. Malzberg and Gordon Van Gelder, speaking on behalf of themselves and the other two judges, Martin H. Greenberg and Mike Resnick.

Novels

 * Dark Universe (1961), greatly expanded and substantially rewritten from "Rebirth" (Imagination, March 1952)
 * Lords of the Psychon (1963), expanded and much revised from "The City of Force" (Galaxy, April 1959)
 * Simulacron-3 (1964), UK title Counterfeit World
 * A Scourge of Screamers (1968), UK title The Lost Perception
 * The Infinite Man (1973) fix-up from the two "Tarl Brent" stories: "Tonight the Sky Will Fall!" (Imagination, May 1952) and "The Day the Sun Died" (Imagination, December 1955)

Collections

 * The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * Sanctuary (novelette) in F&SF (Feb 1954)
 * "Jebaburba" in Galaxy (Oct 1954)
 * Deadline Sunday (novellette) in Imagination (Oct 1955)
 * "Seeing-Eye Dog" in Galaxy (Sep 1956)
 * The Last Leap (novelette) in IF (Jan 60)
 * "Kangaroo Court" in IF (Sep 1960)
 * Fighting Spirit (novelette) in Galaxy (Dec 1960)
 * "Homey Atmosphere" in Galaxy (Apr 1961)
 * Die stummen Schwingen (1967) [Pabel {German}, "Utopia Zukunft" series #313] translated by Nikolai Stockhammer [copyright page asserts that it is a translation of the collection named "Mindmate and other stories"]
 * "Stoßtrupp" (aka "Shock Troop" 1957 )
 * "Der Persönlichkeitstausch" (aka Mindmate 1964 )
 * "Die stummen Schwingen" (aka A Silence of Wings 1962 )
 * "Welt der Diebe" (aka "If Money" 1957 )
 * "Außenseiter" (aka Soft Touch 1959 )
 * Project Barrier (1968)
 * "Shuffle Board" in IF (Jun 1957)
 * "Project Barrier" in Fantastic Universe (Jan 1958)
 * "Recovery Area" in Amazing (Feb 1963)
 * Reign of the Telepuppets (novella) in Amazing (Aug 1963)
 * "Rub-a-Dub" in Fantastic (Apr 1961) as "Descent into the Maelstrom"
 * This Crowded Earth AND Reign of the Telepuppets ({Jan} 2012) - This Crowded Earth is by Robert Bloch. Armchair Fiction Double Novel #42.

Short fiction

 * "Rebirth" in Imagination (Mar 1952)
 * "Tonight the Sky Will Fall!" in Imagination (May 1952); also see The Infinite Man (1973), the editorial in the March 1952 issue of Imagination cites this as the first Galouye story accepted for publication.
 * "The Reluctant Hero" in Imagination (Jul 1952)
 * "The Dangerous Doll" in Imagination (Sep 1952)
 * "The Levitant" in Imagination (Dec 1952)
 * "Spillthrough" in Imagination (Jan 1953)
 * "Second Wind" in Imagination (Apr 1953)
 * "..Do Us Part" in Imagination (Apr 1953), as by Louis G. Daniels
 * "The Fist of Shiva" in Imagination (May 1953)
 * "Effie" in Imagination (Jun 1953)
 * "So Says the Master" in Imagination (Oct 1953)
 * "Blessed Are the Meekbots" in Imagination (Dec 1953)
 * "Sanctuary" (novelette) in F&SF (Feb 1954), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "Disposal Unit" in Imagination (Mar 1954)
 * "Secret of the Immortals" in Imagination (Apr 1954)
 * "Cosmic Santa Claus" in Imagination (May 1954)
 * "… The World is But a Stage" in Imagination (Jun 1954)
 * "Phantom World" in Imagination (Aug 1954)
 * "Supermen Need Superwives!" in Imagination (Aug 1954), as by Louis G. Daniels
 * "Immortality, Inc." in Imagination (Sep 1954)
 * "Satan's Shrine" in Galaxy (Sep 1954)
 * "Jebaburba" in Galaxy (Oct 1954), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "The Man with Two Lives" in Imaginative Tales (Mar 1955)
 * "Over the River" in Imaginative Tales (May 1955)
 * "…So Very Dark" in Imaginative Tales (Jul 1955)
 * "Country Estate" in Galaxy (Aug 1955)
 * "Deadline Sunday" (novelette) in Imagination (Oct 1955), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "The Day the Sun Died" (Imagination, Dec 1955); also see The Infinite Man (1973)
 * "The Pliable" in F&SF (May 1956)
 * "Seeing-Eye Dog" in Galaxy (Sep 1956), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "All Jackson's Children" in Galaxy (Jan 1957)
 * "Gulliver Planet" in Science Fiction Adventures (Apr 1957)
 * "Shock Troop" in Galaxy (Jun 1957)
 * "Shuffle Board" in IF (Jun 1957), collected in Project Barrier (1968)
 * "If Money" in Galaxy (Aug 1957)
 * "The Destiny Detector" in Amazing Stories (Sep 1957)
 * "Share Alike" in Galaxy (Oct 1957)
 * "The Childless Ones" in Super Science-Fiction (Oct 1957)
 * "Project Barrier" in Fantastic Universe (Jan 1958), collected in Project Barrier (1968)
 * "Hostile Life-Form" in Super-Science Fiction (Jun 1958), as by Daniel L. Galouye
 * "Trade Mission" in Fantastic Universe'' (Jan 1959)
 * "Beware The Robot" in Super-Science Fiction (Feb 1959), as by Daniel L. Galouye
 * "The City of Force" in Galaxy (Apr 1959), much revised and expanded as Lords of the Psychon, 1963
 * "Soft Touch" in Galaxy (Jun 1959)
 * "Sitting Duck" in IF (Jul 1959)
 * "Minor Offense" in Fantastic Universe (Nov 1959)
 * "Diplomatic Coop" in Star Science Fiction Stories (Pohl) (1959), reprinted with alternate ending, 1970
 * "The Last Leap" (novelette) in IF (Jan 60), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "Gravy Train" in IF (Mar 60)
 * "Kangaroo Court" in IF (Sep 1960), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "Fighting Spirit" (novelette) in Galaxy (Dec 1960), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "Summons of the Void" in Fantastic (Dec 1960) [rp in Thrilling Science Fiction (Aug 1973)]
 * "The Reality Paradox" in Fantastic (Jan 1961)
 * "The Chasers" in Galaxy (Feb 1961)
 * "The Big Blow-Up" in Fantastic (Mar 1961)
 * "Descent into the Maelstrom" in Fantastic (Apr 1961), collected in Project Barrier as "Rub-a-Dub" (1968)
 * "Homey Atmosphere" in Galaxy (Apr 1961), collected in The Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
 * "The Trekkers" in Fantastic (Sep 1961)
 * "Mirror Image" in IF (Sep 1961)
 * "Spawn of Doom" in Fantastic (Dec 1961)
 * "A Silence of Wings" in Fantastic (Feb 1962)
 * "Recovery Area" in Amazing (Feb 1963), collected in Project Barrier (1968)
 * "Reign of the Telepuppets" (novella) in Amazing (Aug 1963), collected in Project Barrier (1968)
 * "Centipedes of Space" in Fantastic (Apr 1964)
 * "Mindmate" in Amazing (Jul 1964)
 * "Flight of Fancy" in F&SF (Apr 1968)
 * "O Kind Master" in IF (Jan 1970)
 * "Diplomatic Coop (w. alternate ending) in SF: Authors' Choice 2 ([Harry Harrison], {May} 1970)
 * "Prometheus Rebound" in The Year 2000 ([Harry Harrison], 1970)

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William P. Rogers

William Pierce Rogers (June 23, 1913 – January 2, 2001) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. A member of the Republican Party, Rogers served as the 4th Deputy Attorney-General of the United States (1953–1957) and as the 63rd Attorney-General of the United States (1957–1961) in the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and as the 55th Secretary of State (1969–1973) in the administration of Richard Nixon.

Rogers was a close confidant of Nixon, but National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger overshadowed Rogers and eventually succeeded him as Secretary of State in September 1973. At the time of his death in 2001, Rogers was the last surviving member of Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet.

Early life and education
Rogers was born June 23, 1913, in Norfolk, New York. After the death of his mother, the former Myra Beswick, he was raised during his teen years by his grandparents in the village of Canton, New York. He attended Colgate University, where he was initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity. He then attended Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Law Quarterly. He received his LL.B. in 1937, graduating fifth in his class of 47 as a member of the Order of the Coif, passing the New York bar in the same year.

Career
After serving about a year as an attorney for a Wall Street law firm, he became an assistant district attorney in 1938 and was appointed by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to a 60-man task force aimed at routing out New York City's organized crime.

Rogers entered the Navy in 1942, serving on the USS Intrepid (CV-11), including her action in the Battle of Okinawa. His final rank was lieutenant commander.

After the war, Rogers joined the United States Congress as a committee counsel. While serving on a Senate committee, Rogers examined documentation from the House Un-American Activities Committee's investigation of Alger Hiss at the request of Representative Richard M. Nixon. He advised Nixon that Hiss had lied and that the case against him should be pursued.

On August 17, 1948, Senator Homer S. Ferguson, chairman of a Senate subcommittee on expenditures in the executive department, stated by speech and letter that the Office of the United States Attorney General had approved its espionage investigation that had started with Elizabeth Bentley on July 28. Ferguson denied that his subcommittee "has in any way interfered with any criminal prosecution." Ferguson's letter explained that counsel William P. Rogers had consulted with the Attorney General's assistants on June 9. He stated that Rogers had "advised them of our purpose and the procedure planned to be followed, the witnesses who were to be called and the questions they would be asked." That evening, Attorney General Tom C. Clark wrote a letter that contradicted Ferguson as to whether and when Ferguson's committee had "cleared" its public hearings with him.

Clark's letter stated it was "incorrect" that by June 9, 1948, Fergusons' subcommittee had told his office about its intention. Instead, the USAG had heard of the subcommittee's intentions as those public hearings started on July 28. Clark wrote, "It is difficult to say how much damage the efforts to arrive at a sound basis for prosecution in the espionage case has been done by the open hearings." The story broke in newspapers next day.

In 1950, Rogers became a partner in a New York City law firm, Dwight, Royall, Harris, Koegel & Caskey. He thereafter returned to the firm when he was not in government service.

Rogers advised Nixon in the slush fund scandal, which led to Nixon's Checkers speech in 1952.

1953–1957: Deputy Attorney General
Rogers joined the Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Deputy Attorney General in 1953.

As Deputy Attorney General, Rogers had some role in or insight into the process that led to the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage.

As deputy attorney general, Rogers was involved in the Little Rock Integration Crisis in the fall of 1957 of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In that capacity, he worked with Osro Cobb, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, to implement federal orders and to maintain peace in the capital city. Cobb would recall in his memoirs that Rogers called him to discuss the possibility of violence: "Our conversation was somewhat guarded. I had never recommended the use of federal troops, and Rogers asked if I thought they were necessary. I told him I hoped not. Then to my surprise he stated, 'They are on their way already.'"

1957–1961: Attorney General
Rogers served as Attorney General from 1957 to 1961. He remained a close advisor to Vice President Nixon throughout the Eisenhower administration, especially during Eisenhower's two medical crises. Rogers became attorney general upon the resignation of his superior, Herbert Brownell Jr., who had worked to implement the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. In 1958, Little Rock closed its public schools for a year to oppose further desegregation required by the U.S. government. At the time, Rogers said, "It seems inconceivable that a state or community would rather close its public schools than comply with decisions of the Supreme Court."

In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr. hailed Rogers for advocating the integration of an elementary school in Alabama that had excluded the children of black military personnel.

1961–1969: Hiatus
After the Eisenhower administration, Rogers returned to his law practice, now renamed to Rogers & Wells, where he worked until his early eighties. He played an important role in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan a 1964 case before the Supreme Court.

From 1962 to 1963, Rogers was head of the Federal City Council, a group of business, civic, education, and other leaders for the economic development in Washington, DC.

1969–1973: Secretary of State
Rogers succeeded Dean Rusk as Secretary of State in the Nixon administration from January 22, 1969, to September 3, 1973. Nixon had long distrusted the State Department, whom he had accused under the Truman administration of being staffed with liberal diplomats who were insufficiently anti-communist and who were responsible for the "loss of China" in 1949. Given his dislike of the State Department, Nixon when he came into office in 1969 wanted to conduct his foreign policy via the National Security Council in a bid to marginalize the State Department.

Nixon had selected an ambitious political science professor from Harvard, Henry Kissinger, to be his national security adviser who soon emerged as his main adviser on foreign affairs. Nixon selected Rogers to be the secretary of state because he knew nothing of foreign affairs and was unlikely to assert the interests of the State Department. On Nixon's Inauguration Day, 20 January 1969, Rogers was handed a lengthy volume containing a summary of the world's major issues written by the State Department's leading experts in order to brief him for his new job, leading him to remark in surprise: "You don't expect me to read all this stuff, do you?" Rogers's ignorance of foreign policy issues and his unwillingness to assert the interests of his department duly led to the State Department pushed to the sidelines under his stewardship with the major decisions taken by Kissinger with no input or even the knowledge of Rogers.

Kissinger later said of Rogers, "Few secretaries of state can have been selected because of their president's confidence in their ignorance of foreign policy."

In February 1969, Nixon began to discuss plans to bomb the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bases just over the border in Cambodia, which Rogers felt was unwise, warning that such a bombing offensive might damage the peace talks in Paris. On 16 March 1969, Rogers attended a meeting at the White House where Nixon discussed Operation Menu, the plans to bomb Cambodia in secret. Though the State Department's experts stated that the main source of weapons for the Viet Cong was the Ho Chi Minh Trail coming down from North Vietnam via Laos, not Cambodia, Rogers had not read their assessments. At the 16 March meeting, Rogers offered the most tepid opposition to the plan to bomb Cambodia, which began the next day.

One of his notable aims was to initiate efforts at a lasting peace in the Arab–Israeli conflict by the so-called Rogers Plan on 3 December 1969. Throughout his tenure, however, his influence was curtailed by Nixon's determination to handle critical foreign policy strategy and execution directly from the White House through his national security adviser Henry Kissinger. On the night of 21 February 1970, Kissinger first met in secret with the North Vietnamese diplomat Le Duc Tho in a house in Paris suburb, opening a new set of talks that were independent of the official peace talks in Paris. Kissinger only first informed Rogers of the secret talks in Paris parallel to the official talks in February 1971, a year later. On 23 March 1970, Rogers told the press that the United States had the utmost respect for the "neutrality, sovereignty and independence" of Cambodia, stating categorically there no plans to invade Cambodia. In the same press conference, Rogers stated: "We don't anticipate that any request will be made" for help from the new Lon Nol government. Unknown to him, Nixon and Kissinger were already discussing plans to invade Cambodia. On 30 April 1970, the United States invaded Cambodia.

On October 15, 1973, Rogers received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Nixon. At the same ceremony, his wife, Adele Rogers, was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal.

Later life
Ronald Reagan asked Rogers to play the US president in IVY LEAGUE 82 (March 1982), a command post exercise of American nuclear forces under SIOP.

Rogers led the investigation into the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. The Rogers Commission was the first investigation to criticize NASA management for its role in negligence of safety in the Space Shuttle program. Among the more famous members of Rogers's panel were astronauts Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride, Air Force general Donald Kutyna, and physicist Richard Feynman.

Rogers worked at his law firm, now renamed Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells after a 1999 merger, in its Washington office until several months before his death.

Personal life
Rogers married Adele Langston (August 15, 1911 – May 27, 2001), a fellow law student whom he had met at Cornell. They had four children.

William P. Rogers died of congestive heart failure, at the Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, on January 2, 2001, at the age of 87. Rogers was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Legacy
In 2001, the Rogers family donated to Cornell Law Library materials to reflect the lives of William and Adele Rogers, mostly from 1969 to 1973.

Publications
Articles
 * “U.S. Foreign Policy: A Discussion with Former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk, William P. Rogers, Cyrus R. Vance, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.”. International Studies Notes, Vol. 11, No. 1, Special Edition: The Secretaries of State, Fall 1984. (pp. 10–20)

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Nanchang uprising

The Nanchang Uprising was the first major Nationalist Party of China–Chinese Communist Party engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Chinese Communists to counter the Shanghai massacre of 1927 by the Kuomintang.

The Kuomintang (KMT) left wing established a "Revolutionary Committee" at Nanchang to plant the spark that was expected to ignite a widespread peasant uprising. Deng Yanda, Song Qingling and Zhang Fakui (listed nominally, who later crushed the uprising) were among the political leaders.

Military forces in Nanchang under the leadership of He Long and Zhou Enlai rebelled in an attempt to seize control of the city after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance. Other important leaders in this event were Zhu De, Ye Ting, and Liu Bocheng.

Communist forces successfully occupied Nanchang and escaped from the siege of Kuomintang forces by 5 August, withdrawing to the Jinggang Mountains of western Jiangxi. 1 August 1927 was later regarded as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the first action fought against the Kuomintang and the National Revolutionary Army (NRA).

Communist forces

Communist forces at their peak during the Nanchang Uprising totaled over 20,000, though some of them did not join the battle until a day later. The entire Communist force was organized into the 2nd Front Army, and over half of it was under He Long's command. He was also named Commander-in-Chief of the 2nd Front Army, and Ye Ting as deputy Commander-in-Chief and acting front-line Commander-in-Chief. Communist representative was Zhou Enlai, chief of staff was Liu Bocheng and Director of the Political Directorate of the 2nd Front Army was Guo Moruo. The following is the order of battle for the Communist forces:
 * 9th Army commanded by Zhou Enlai, with Zhu De as the deputy commander and Zhu Kejing (朱克靖) as the Communist Party representative.
 * 11th Army commanded by Ye Ting, with Cai Tingkai as the deputy commander and Nie Rongzhen as the party representative.
 * 10th Division commanded by Cai Tingkai
 * 24th Division commanded by Gu Xunming/Dong Zhongming (古勋铭/董仲明)
 * 25th Division commanded by Li Hanhun, and after taking Nanchang by Zhou Shidi
 * 20th Army commanded by He Long and Liao Qianwu (廖乾吾) as the communist representative
 * 1st Division commanded by He Jinzhai (贺锦斋)
 * 2nd Division commanded by Qing Guangyuan (秦光远)
 * 3rd Division commanded by Zhou Yiqun

Battle at Nanchang
On the morning of 1 August 1927, at exactly 2:00 a.m., Zhou Enlai, He Long, Nie Rongzhen, Ye Ting, Ye Jianying, Lin Biao, Zhu De, Chen Yi and Liu Bocheng led their troops and attacked the city of Nanchang from different directions. Four hours later they took the city, capturing 5,000 small arms and around 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition.

Retreat
Facing a counterattack from the Nationalists, the Communists decided to retreat south towards the province of Guangdong. Once there they would try to take over the city of Guangzhou while spreading their influence to the peasants and farms in that area.

Little Long March
Guangzhou was the target set by the Soviet Comintern and, on August 3, Communist troops pulled out of Nanchang. Their Little Long March came to an end at the beginning of October, as they came down out of the Hakka uplands and into the Chaoshan area. In Chaozhou they were defeated by Nationalist-affiliated troops. Communist forces were broken up and traveled in two general directions, one heading to Shanwei where they engaged the Nationalists in guerrilla warfare under Peng Pai, and the other to southern Hunan, where they eventually joined a force under Mao Zedong, whose abortive Autumn Harvest Uprising had been no more successful.

The Communist forces had suffered such a decisive and disastrous defeat that only 1,000 soldiers remained as a complete unit, reforming into a regiment. Under the command of Zhu De and Chen Yi, who had faked their names, the regiment went to a local Hunan warlord and sought refuge. From this humble beginning the force eventually grew to 10,000 strong, traveling to Jiangxi and joining Mao Zedong at Jinggangshan in April 1928.

Liu Bocheng became a fugitive but was lucky enough to find other Communists who helped him and eventually sent him to the Soviet Union for military training, while Lin Biao deserted after the defeat. However, he had to return to the Communist force because of his fear that locals hostile to his side would turn him over to his enemies or kill him. Guo Moruo fled to Japan after the defeat.

Other surviving members were much less fortunate; all became fugitives. Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying and Ye Ting lost contact with the others and fled to British Hong Kong, with Zhou seriously ill. The three had two pistols with them and were successful in reaching Hong Kong. Nie Rongzhen, the other communist leader, also successfully escaped to Hong Kong.

He Long
He Long had strongly opposed the retreat plan, accurately pointing out that marching 1000 miles in the heat of summer would put a severe strain on the troops, and that popular support for the Communists in Guangdong was merely a fraction of the huge support they had among the peasantry in Hunan. His opinion was that the new Communist base should be established in the border region of Hunan, suggesting that in Hunan the Communist troops would be easily resupplied and their numbers increased by the enlistment of the local populace. However, his suggestion was vetoed.

He Long went home alone after the defeat. Demoted from his position as an army commander in charge of tens of thousands of men to that of a beggar, he was not well received by his family except for a few who were already Communists. He would soon raise another force of Communist soldiers, this time more than 3000 strong, but it would be wiped out by the Nationalists, with less than three dozen members surviving. It would take a year for He Long's force to recover for the third time.

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Roger Elwood

Roger Elwood (January 13, 1943 – February 2, 2007) was an American science fiction author and editor, who edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers during the early to mid-1970s.

Biography
Born and raised in southern New Jersey, Roger Elwood started his professional writing career soon after graduating from high school.

Elwood edited two magazines about wrestling, The Big Book of Wrestling and Official Wrestling Guide, on a contract basis during 1971–72 for Jalart House, an Arizona publisher, and regularly photographed matches (photographs were more important than text for wrestling magazines). He became a regular with locker room access at some shows on the East Coast, which might seem to contradict rumours that he had become disillusioned with wrestling when it came to his attention that some professional wrestling matches were fixed. This period produced some fictional confessional stories (e.g. "I Killed a Man in the Ring") that Elwood claimed were based on "a blending of interviews". He left the job abruptly between late 1972 and early 1973, telling writers the wrestling magazines were too much work for too little compensation.

Elwood was published by four different publishers during his first six years as an SF anthologist. During the next few years he would contract with more than a dozen other publishers to produce many dozens of individual books and two anthology series, the four-book Continuum and two-book Frontiers. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction observes that "At one time it was estimated that Roger Elwood alone constituted about one quarter of the total market for SF short stories."

About the time the SF anthology market was decreasing, Elwood began working for Laser Books, an ultimately unsuccessful attempt by romance publishing giant Harlequin Books to systematize and regularize SF into a uniform series of novels by diverse authors. He then effectively quit ordinary science fiction/fantasy during the late 1970s, becoming a prolific writer of Christian-based novels during the 1990s, with more than thirty novels published during that decade.

Elwood's biography on the Fantastic Fiction website omits mention of his work concerning ordinary science fiction/fantasy and identifies him as a Writer-in-Residence (or occasionally a "professor of literature") at a Bible college in the mid-western USA. The biography also claims that "12 of his novels have won Excellence in Media awards for best book of the year", although the Silver Angels award website includes only a general "Print" category, and does not list Elwood's name.

Criticisms
Elwood's work as a genre anthology editor during the mid 1970s is not without its detractors, whose criticisms range from professional to ad hominem; James Nicoll has noted that Elwood's "capacity to produce anthologies at high speed was not, alas, matched with an ability to produce interesting anthologies", as well as the possibility that "readers, having read a few unremarkable Elwood anthologies, were reluctant to buy more".

A review of Elwood's 1976 anthology Six Science Fiction Plays in the Star Trek fan magazine Enterprise Incidents remarked that except for the inclusion of the original teleplay of the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" by Harlan Ellison, the book was "another excursion into mediocrity by Roger Elwood."

Quality
Amongst other criticisms, which she suggests "are more conjectural, but not easily dismissed", Nielsen Hayden nominates "the quality of the books themselves". She describes Elwood's theme anthologies as "carelessly edited" and "low-grade", although she allows that "some of Elwood's collections were quite decent," and that "all of them featured some good writers and good stories."

The following are examples of peer recognition accorded to some of the stories printed in Elwood's anthologies (source: the Internet Speculative Fiction Database):

 * The short story "Forever and Amen" by Robert Bloch, from Elwood's 1972 anthology And Walk Now Gently Through The Fire and Other Science Fiction Stories was chosen by Forrest J. Ackerman for inclusion in his Best Science Fiction for 1973 compilation.
 * The 1973 anthology Future City included "The World as Will and Wallpaper" by R. A. Lafferty, which was reprinted by Terry Carr in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 (1974), "The Undercity" by Dean Koontz, which has been re-anthologized twice (in 1977 by Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction, and in 1997 by Ric Alexander in Cyber-Killers), and "Getting Across" by Robert Silverberg which has also been re-anthologized twice (in 1986 by Greenberg et al. in Computer Crimes and Capers and in 1997 by Waugh and Greenberg in Sci-Fi Private Eye). The Future City anthology itself was reprinted in the United Kingdom by Sphere Books in 1976.
 * Robert Silverberg's "The Wind and the Rain", from Elwood's 1973 anthology Saving Worlds, was reprinted by Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss in their Best SF: 1973 anthology.
 * "After King Kong Fell" by Philip José Farmer, from Elwood's 1973 anthology Omega, was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1974, and reprinted by Harrison and Aldiss in Best SF: 1974.
 * Elwood's 1973 anthology Showcase contains Silverberg's novelette Breckenridge and the Continuum, which was chosen by Terry Carr for The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3 (1974), as well as "The Childhood of the Human Hero" by Carol Emshwiller, which was included in Nebula Award Stories 9, edited by Kate Wilhelm.
 * Thomas F. Monteleone's short story "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep", from Elwood's 1975 anthology Dystopian Visions, was nominated for a Nebula award in 1976.
 * No less than twenty of the stories chosen by Barry N. Malzberg for inclusion in his collection The Best of Barry N. Malzberg (1976) were first published in one or other of Elwood's original anthologies.

Professionalism
Elwood is reported to have underpaid authors. Additionally, Teresa Nielsen Hayden discusses speculation about the financial details of some of Elwood's projects "that by all indications should have had generous budgets" but were "peculiarly long on authors who had slight or nonexistent publishing credentials outside of Roger Elwood projects."

Elwood's eight-volume young adult hardcover Lerner SF Library (1974), with three or four stories per volume, includes stories from three authors whose only recorded sale, according to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, was to that book; two more authors who only ever sold stories to Roger Elwood; and one whose only first sale was to Roger Elwood, but who had the story republished elsewhere.

SF hardcovers were relatively uncommon during the 1970s and the stories were supposedly original commissions, so Nielsen Hayden believes it is reasonable to assume that this was a well-funded project. Normally the entire advance for an anthology is paid to the anthologist, who then purchases story rights out of his or her own pocket, retaining any unspent advance money.

Given the availability of experienced short fiction writers at the time, Elwood's choice of inexperienced authors aroused suspicions.

The Lerner SF Library also contains two stories by Earl and Otto Binder, and a third story by Otto alone. Given that Earl and Otto Binder ceased to co-author stories in 1955, and that Earl died in 1965 and Otto in 1974, it seems unlikely any of these stories was a commissioned work.

Effect on the industry
Nielsen Hayden reports that, prior to Elwood's involvement with the market, anthologies and collections were very popular with readers, and were considered by the publishing industry to be "a surer bet than novels". She accuses Elwood of "singlehandedly breaking the story collection/anthology market". By "wreck[ing] the readers' faith in collections" she says, Elwood "squandered industry credibility accumulated over decades by better anthologists". Anthologies and story collections, she suggests, became "a hard sell".

The idea that Elwood's effect has been a long-term one, as Nielsen Hayden maintains, is difficult to maintain considering the continuing high numbers of anthologies published annually.

Publishers
Publishing houses which published Roger Elwood's anthologies:

 * 1964: Paperback Library
 * 1965: Paperback Library
 * 1966: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
 * 1967: Tower
 * 1968: Tower
 * 1969: MacFadden-Bartell (3x)
 * 1970: MacFadden-Bartell
 * 1971: ---
 * 1972: Avon, Chilton, Fleming H. Revell, MacFadden-Bartell
 * 1973: Avon (2x), Concordia, Doubleday, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Follett, Franklin Watts, Harper & Row, Macmillan Publishers (2x), Manor, Rand McNally (2x), Random House, Trident, Walker, Whitman
 * 1974: Aurora, Berkley/Putnam (3x), Curtis, Dodd, Mead and Company, Doubleday, Franklin Watts, John Knox Press, Julian Messner, Lerner SF Library (8x), Pocket Books, Rand McNally, Thomas Nelson, Trident
 * 1975: Berkley, Berkley/Putnam, Bobbs-Merrill, Evans, Follett, Manor, Prentice Hall, Warner
 * 1976: Archway, Pocket, Washington Square Press
 * 1977: Bobbs-Merrill Company

Short work
Elwood's Fantastic Fiction biography claims that he has sold "a thousand articles and a few short stories" to publications including Ladies Home Companion, Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine, Photoplay, Grit and Weekly Reader.

Anthologies

 * Alien Worlds (1964)
 * Invasion of the Robots (1965)
 * Strange Signposts (1966) (with Sam Moskowitz)
 * The Time Curve (1968) (with Sam Moskowitz)
 * Alien Earth: And Other Stories (1969)
 * The Little Monsters (1969) (with Vic Ghidalia)
 * Other Worlds, Other Times (1969) (with Sam Moskowitz)
 * Horror Hunters (1971) (with Vic Ghidalia)
 * And Walk Now Gently Through The Fire: And Other Science Fiction Stories (1972)
 * Young Demons (1972) (with Vic Ghidalia)
 * Beware the Beasts (1973) (with Vic Ghidalia)
 * Demon Kind (1973)
 * Future Quest (1973)
 * Way Out (1973)
 * The Berserkers (1973)
 * Future City (1973)
 * The Other Side Of Tomorrow (1973)
 * Monster Tales: Vampires Werewolves And Things (1973)
 * Children of Infinity: Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers (1973)
 * Androids, Time Machines, and Blue Giraffes: A Panorama of Science Fiction (1973)
 * Flame Tree Planet: And Other Stories (1973)
 * Saving Worlds (1973) (with Virginia Kidd)
 * Showcase (1973)
 * Ten Tomorrows (1973)
 * Omega (1974)

 * Crisis: Ten Original Stories of Science Fiction (1974)
 * Chronicles of a Comer: And Other Religious Science Fiction Stories (1974)
 * The Killer Plants: And Other Stories (1974)
 * Night of the Sphinx: and Other Stories (1974)
 * Strange Gods (1974)
 * Survival from Infinity: Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers (1974)
 * The Far Side of Time (1974)
 * Future Kin: Eight Science Fiction Stories (1974)
 * Horror Tales: Spirits, Spells and the Unknown (1974)
 * The Learning Maze: and Other Science Fiction (1974)
 * The Wounded Planet (1974)
 * Dystopian Visions (1975)
 * Future Corruption (1975)
 * The Gifts Of Asti: And Other Stories of Science Fiction (1975)
 * Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction (1975)
 * Epoch (1975)
 * Six Science Fiction Plays (1975)
 * The Fifty-meter Monsters: And Other Horrors (1976)
 * Visions of Tomorrow (1976)
 * Futurelove (1977)
 * Science Fiction Tales (1978)
 * Spine-Chillers: Unforgettable Tales of Terror (1978) (with Howard Goldsmith)
 * More Science Fiction Tales (1978)

Anthology series
Frontiers:
 * Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives (1973)
 * Frontiers 2: The New Mind (1973)

Continuum: Each Continuum volume contained eight short stories: seven comprising four-episode series by the authors Poul Anderson, Philip José Farmer, Anne McCaffrey, Chad Oliver, Edgar Pangborn, Thomas N. Scortia, and Gene Wolfe. (The stories by Pangborn are based in the world of his novel Davy, but at different times within that world's fictional history.) The eighth story in each volume is part of a rotating author series started by Dean R. Koontz.
 * Continuum 1 (1974)
 * Continuum 2 (1974)
 * Continuum 3 (1974)
 * Continuum 4 (1975)

Novel series
Angelwalk:
 * 1) Angelwalk (1988)
 * 2) Fallen Angel (1990)
 * 3) Steadfast Guardian Angel (1992)

 * Darien: Guardian Angel Of Jesus (1994)
 * The Angelwalk Trilogy: Angelwalk / Fallen Angel / Stedfast (omnibus) (1995)
 * Darien's Angelwalk for Children (1995)
 * Angels in Atlantic City (1998)
 * Wendy's Phoenix (1999)
 * Where Angels Dare (1999)
 * On Holy Ground (2001)

Bartlett Brothers:
 * Sudden Fear (1991)
 * Terror Cruise (1991)
 * Forbidden River (1991)
 * The Frankenstein Project (1991)
 * Disaster Island (1992)
 * Nightmare at Skull Junction (1992)

Oss Chronicles:
 * 1) Wolf's Lair (1993)
 * 2) Deadly Sanction (1993)
 * 3) Code Name Bloody Winter (1993)

Without The Dawn:
 * 1) How Soon The Serpent (1997)
 * 2) Valley of the Shadow (1997)
 * 3) The Judas Factor (1997)
 * 4) Bright Phoenix (1997)

Novels

 * Long Night Of Waiting (1974)
 * Remnant (1989)
 * The Christening (1989)
 * The Wandering (1990)
 * Children of the Furor (1990)
 * Dwellers (1990)
 * Sorcerers of Sodom (1991)
 * Dark Knight (1991)

 * Wise One (1991)
 * Soaring : An Odyssey of the Soul (1992)
 * Maggie's Song (1993)
 * Circle of Deception (1993)
 * The Road to Masada (1994)
 * Shawn Hawk: A Novel of the 21st Century (1995)
 * Act of Sacrifice: Vol. 3 (1997)
 * Ashes of Paradise (1997) (which explains how to reconcile Confederate slaveholding and Christian ideals)
 * Stephen the Martyr (1998)

Other

 * ''The Dukes of Hazzard Scrapbook

title: Roger Elwood