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"Invest in Peace": After Devastating 22-Year War, Hope for Peace Finally Emerges in Uganda


Two decades of violence have drenched Uganda in blood. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have captured children, forced them to become soldiers, and brainwashed them with terrible lies. They define training as killing another child, murdering those who refuse to comply. They rub shea nut oil on the children’s skin, and say the bullets will bounce off.

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Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill, Jr. (1912-94), Congressman; Speaker, U.S. House of Rep. (1977-86), bfparker@frontiernet.net

Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill, Jr. (1912-94), Congressman; Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives (1977-86)
By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net

Tip O'Neill grew up in a politically active Irish working family in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, physically near but culturally far from elite Yankee-oriented Harvard College.

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