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Mayr began his academic career at the University of Berlin as assistant curator of the university's zoological museum...
While the worldwide arms market shrank to $31.9 billion last year -- less than half of 1988's $67.9 billion -- the U.S. share has skyrocketed. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, U.S. overseas weapons sales have totaled $82.4 billion, far ahead of the $66.8 billion in sales racked up by the rest of the world's nations combined. U.S. arms-transfer agreements in 1993 totaled $22.3 billion, eclipsing second-place Russia's $2.8 billion and Britain's $2.3 billion third-place finish. The Pentagon sponsored weapons sales to 86 nations; furthermore, Washington approved the shipment...
...Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler, on the eve of his 75th birthday, is preparing...
...tries to air out his novel with long, wistful passages recounting Glen's bittersweet entanglement with a married German woman when he was a young soldier. These sections work as a love story but, told in retrospect, simply point toward the hero in sour middle age. Scenes of the Berlin Wall coming down are clumsily atmospheric; East Germany is free and Glen at last has his divorce, but the connection is stagy. Maybe the moral is, Write about what you know, sure, except if what you know is that your wife's lawyer is a lizard, take...
...Clancy, author: "Close National Airport. Buy up the old Berlin Wall and plant it around the White House, but it might give the wrong impression. Move the White House to Cheyenne Mountain, headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense Command...