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...YEARS AGO, I ARRIVED IN MONTANA TO REPORT ON THE end of the world, and I'm still here. Given all the recent goings-on, the story I came to cover seems almost cliched: a heavily armed survivalist cult, the Church Universal and Triumphant, was preparing to ride out Armageddon in the mountains north of Yellowstone Park. The roads were clogged with supply-filled U-Haul vans. In Livingston, the town where I now live, the store shelves had been cleared of staples from tampons to dried beans to rifle shells. The locals were scared, and there was talk...
...world. But at the same time Washington had to be cautious about where it sent troops for fear of stumbling into a direct clash with the Soviet Union, one that could escalate to nuclear war. Now the opportunities for intervention are almost endless and carry little fear of Armageddon...
...every kid may be as mad and morose as Araki's lost boys--sophomores who can't bear to live till junior year. But a lot are, and in this fevered fantasy of Armageddon, he's got their number...
DIED. JOHN A. SCALI, 77, former ABC News correspondent; in Washington. In 1962, as the world was watching the rapidly escalating Cuban missile crisis, a Soviet intelligence official asked Scali to pass on to the White House a proposal to defuse the edge-of-Armageddon confrontation. President Kennedy then asked the newsman to keep a lid on the secrets he was privy to as unofficial go-between. Nobly, Scali did--passing up the scoop of a lifetime...
...epic and fascinating Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster; 731 pages; $32.50), a sequel to his Pulitzer prizewinning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Rhodes shows how the failure of scientists and political leaders to understand each others' realms almost brought the world to nuclear Armageddon...