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...report to the U.S. If an East German-West German committee were set up to explore German reunification, there would be no change in Berlin's status during their 18 months' talks (as the Russians proposed, or 2½years, as the West suggested). But afterward, if they failed to agree, would the Russians then unilaterally sign a peace treaty with the Communist East Germans? If so, said the West, Russia would still be holding a time bomb over Berlin, but merely lengthening the fuse. Answered Gromyko: The duration of the temporary agreement was "a matter neither...
...walking their police dogs. He was just a struggling young party leader then. Hitler liked Maria's fresh Nordic charm, and she confessed to her sister: "He cuts a fine figure with those riding breeches and that riding crop." Hitler invited her to come and hear him speak. Afterward, he fed her cake with his fingers, but when she refused him a good-night kiss, Hitler glowered and stalked out with an abrupt "Heil...
...Encores. Fortnight ago in Taiz, a local judge dissolved the marriage of a soldier on complaint of his wife. The soldier was so angry that afterward he ran after the judge's car. Flustered, the judge ran him down. The dead soldier's comrades chased the judge to his home and began shooting it up. Surrendering to save his family, the judge was killed on the spot, and then, in that favorite democratic ritual in the Middle East, his body was dragged through the streets. In the excitement, civil control collapsed and the army last week took over...
Data on the electromagnetic effects of the blasts showed that the upper atmosphere was so disturbed by ionizing radiation "that some radio waves were absorbed or scattered" for hours afterward. Result: communications were upset or blacked out over an area "at least" 3,000 miles in diameter. Obvious conclusion: a megaton bomb exploded high overhead just ahead of an all-out missile attack could disrupt vital defense communications for a few crucial hours...
...Soon afterward, Fred became a teacher at a Catholic school for boys. After a quarrel with the brother superior, he stole the school's station wagon, learned to drive as he went skidding down to Boston, got drunk and woke up the next morning as a buck private in the U.S. Army...