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The Salvadoran army managed to crush the guerrillas long-threatened "final offensive," which began in mid-January. Nonetheless, U.S. military experts concluded that the guerrillas still possessed a large cache of weapons and that the poorly trained, shoddily equipped army could not suppress the resistance entirely. A spectrum of options...
Dr. Thomas Courtney Lee of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., offers yet another possibility. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, he suggests Van Gogh suffered from unintentional digitalis poisoning. Lee's evidence is tenable although admittedly circumstantial. Digitalis, a heart stimulant, was a treatment for epilepsy...
Baranczak's family--his wife. Anna, 10-year-old son Michel and three-year-old daughter Ania--were also granted passports yesterday and will accompany him here. His exact travel plans are not yet set, his mother said.
Laqueur dislikes the very word Holocaust: holokaustein means to bring a burnt offering, and "it was not the intention of the Nazis to make a sacrifice of this kind, and the position of the Jews was not that of a ritual victim." Still, the term has entered the world'...
THOSE WHO INTERPRET this movie as glorifying mercenaries have missed the point, but their confusion underscores one other theme. Mercenary swagger, the strut of a man loaded down with a gun and with the realization that he is running through the night toward his own death, is very close, almost...