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Road to MoscowBill Clinton’s Early Activism from Fulbright to Moscow By Fedora SummaryDuring the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton’s student protests and Moscow trip generated much controversy, but few answers. While Clinton’s government files from that era seemingly remain unavailable even today, there is at least more information available than in 1992. The public record reveals that Clinton’s social network and views on Vietnam were influenced by a pattern of contact between Communist agents and sympathizers and Clinton’s academic and political associates. This pattern is documented here through an analysis of Clinton’s antiwar activity up through the time he left Oxford...

Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and the last surviving Mitford sister, has died aged 94. Her son, the Duke of Devonshire, announced the death in a statement from Chatsworth House, her stately home. The Mitford sisters fascinated - and sometimes scandalised - British society in the 1940s. Unity was a friend of Hitler, Diana, the second wife of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and Jessica a left-wing polemicist. Deborah was more focused on her home life.