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10 de feb. de 2010 · Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, a colorful 12-term congressman who pushed the covert action that helped Afghanistan rebels defeat the mighty Soviet Union, died Wednesday afternoon at a hospital in ...
1 de abr. de 2003 · After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, pressure mounted for the Americans to support the Afghan resistance. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from East Texas who sat on the powerful House Defense Appropriations Committee, persuaded his colleagues to allocate $10 million to fund the CIA's effort to arm the Mujahideen.
13 de feb. de 2010 · It takes a larger-than-life Congressman to bring down a superpower. A strong case could be made, however, that Charlie Wilson did precisely that, by channelling to Afghanistan's mujahideen ...
WILSON, Charles (1933-2010). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. Book in LRL collection, 328.764 W692C 2003. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times, 2003. WILSON, CHARLES NESBITT [CHARLIE] (1933-2010). Handbook of Texas ...
Congressman Charlie Wilson Charlie served his district and his state well, he never tried to hide his shortcomings, and he was a good friend. A lot of people would settle for that as an epitaph.
10 de feb. de 2010 · Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, the swashbuckling Democratic congressman from Texas immortalized in the book and movie "Charlie Wilson's War," died Wednesday in Lufkin.He was 76.
10 de feb. de 2010 · Charlie Wilson, the rowdy, fast-living East Texas congressman who worked to secure clandestine arms for Afghan resistance fighters in the 1980s, died of cardiac arrest Wednesday in Lufkin, Texas ...
