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Article: Times a'changing towards more humane foreign policy; INSIDE THE Les Reid WORLD OF POLITICS.
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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Byline: Les Reid
BOB Dylan, recalling his 1950s childhood, once wrote of the fear that the Cold War and the nuclear threat struck in the young.
As a ten-year-old, he would be forced to lie face down under his schooldesk as part of a nuclear bomb drill, and he lived with a neurosis that the Soviets were about to parachute into his remote part of Minnesota.
Growing up in Warwickshire in the 1970s and early 1980s carried similar tragi-comic fears, as propaganda-fuelled ...