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...Ferdinand Nothomb, a member of the Christian Social Party, refused to accept direct responsibility for the incident. Martens offered his government's resignation, but in a rare move by the country's constitutional monarch, King Baudouin refused to accept it. The King's reason: elections would have been in August, when most Belgians are away on vacation...
Mainly he believes in what he saw those August days in 1945. He believes in the piles of bodies in the river and in the melted skin and in the fires in the sky. He believes in Ota. In the present, he believes in his wife and in his home. He would believe in children too, if he had any. But he would not have children; he was afraid they would be affected by possible genetic damage caused by radiation. He believes quite strongly in his house, onto which he has just built an additional room. The house is lovely...
...Spaatz, commander in chief of the U.S. Strategic Air Force, ordering that the city be bombed; a large photo of the A-bomb known as "Little Boy," looking like a sea mammal in profile; messages of resolve or condolence from distinguished visitors; leaflets dropped by the Americans in early August 1945 that warned of some general disaster but not of the A-bomb specifically. "The Americans did warn Nagasaki about the Bomb, but not Hiroshima," says Kawamoto. "It made no difference anyway. Our military ordered the people not to read any of the leaflets, so none of our citizens knew...
...government later denied rumors that the Prime Minister might have resigned if she had lost the vote, which could have led to new elections in August. Said one Thatcher aide: "There's never a popular time to give money to senior people." PHILIPPINES A Threat to Close U.S. Bases...
...Today faces a critical test on Aug. 26, when the price rises from 35¢ to 50¢. The last increase, from 25¢ last August, resulted in a temporary drop-off of about 100,000 buyers. Another late-summer decline is expected, and the briskness of both the circulation's recovery and its growth above 1.3 million will determine whether USA Today will survive...