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...elegance that suggests Prince Andrey Bolkonsky in Tolstoy's War and Peace with that passion for bearing truthful witness at all costs that has been the center of Solzhenitsyn's own career as a writer. In August 1914, though, Verotyntsev is too busy carrying messages around the battlefield (and from the author to the reader) to seem entirely human...
Arlington Engineer Bobbie R. Beller has not given up the Unknown Soldier project. Recently, Seller said: "We hope there won't be one, but . . . it's pos sible that one will be found in a final sweep of the battlefield." Seller added: "If not, the tomb will not be used." Perhaps, given the special agony and futility of the Viet Nam War, some sort of monument should be erected to the men who died there - known...
...Senator can attract rank and file worker support. Dutton also expects McGovern to tap sufficiently a general resentment against the powerlessness of individuals and the power of big Government, business and labor so as to cut into traditional Republican strength in the suburbs, claiming "That's where the battlefield...
Accommodation. But both governments have been afraid that a big-power directorate would once again settle their problems over their heads. North Korea's Kim II Sung has been concerned that his country might one day turn into a battlefield of a Sino-So-viet war. South Korean President Park, in the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, evidently decided that, instead of waiting for the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops still stationed on South Korean soil, it would be better to start talking with Pyongyang while the Americans are still there...
Stockholm is a battlefield of conflicting reports, recommendations and manifestos. It is a jumble of diplomats (1,200 from 112 nations), scholarly experts (several thousand from 550 nongovernmental organizations), and environmental enthusiasts of every variety. They all are here for one purpose: to save the world-their...