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...critical food shortage in Dresden, but prices were high, and distribution problems were evident everywhere. One store would have an oversupply of bread, another none. Eggs were practically nonexistent, butter rationed and scarce. "We have a joke here," said a farmer. "Do you know the difference between an atom bomb and a collective farm? None. Both completely lay waste to the earth...
...killed: some bomb-denuded places bloomed during the following spring with unusually luxuriant growths of tumbleweed. Biologist Lora Shields of New Mexico Highlands University, who is studying the site's resurgent biology, says that the spherical tumbleweeds rolled across the denuded sites scattering their seeds, and found the atomized soil exactly to their liking. So far, no atom-induced plant mutations have appeared, and trees on a nearby mesa show no radiation damage. The local animals (red foxes, snakes, rodents) are doing fine-for the time being...
...Filipino lawmakers later in the week, MacArthur indicated that he was still of the same mind. The failure of the United Nations forces to win the Korean war was "a major disaster for the free world," he said. "With victory within our grasp and without the use of the atom bomb, which we needed no more then than against Japan, we failed to see it through. Had we done so, we would have destroyed Red China's capability of waging modern war for generations to come...
...failure of nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought to go into the Common Market to end the division of Europe that has spawned three wars in the last 100 years, he was interrupted by both camps, but refused to be shouted down...
...Robert added an n to the name the brothers assumed after moving to the U.S. Born Sobolevicius, they are not related to Morton Sobell, who was convicted with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the 1951 atom spy case...