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ONLY IN DREAMS -- DREAMS SHARED BY LEGIONS OF THE NO LONGER YOUNG -- IS Martina Navratilova likely to turn back time and win a 10th Wimbledon singles title on her farewell visit, starting this week. On the Centre Court greensward, Navratilova has been Jesse Owens in Berlin, Diego Maradona in Mexico City, the athlete at one with the place and the moment. The speedy surface suited her attacking game. The ritual and formality suited her sense of history. She loved racing to the net, secure that any shot she kept in bounds would be a winner, and she loved curtsying when...
FOLLOWING KRISTALLNACHT IN 1939, when Nazi mobs in Berlin destroyed synagogues and shops owned by Jews, a small window to freedom briefly opened for German, Austrian and Polish children. Over the course of eight months, nearly 10,000 Jewish youngsters under 18 were evacuated to Britain to stay with foster families until it was safe to return. Most never saw their parents or homeland again. While the Kindertransport saved them, the separation from everything they had cared for would be a kind of death...
London: Barry Hillenbrand, Helen Gibson, William Rademaekers Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson, Rhea Schoenthal Berlin: Nomi Morris Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly, Yuri Zarakhovich, Felix Rosenthal Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer, Ron Ben-Yishai, Jamil Hamad Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America...
...most dramatic decline is in eastern Germany where the rate, already relatively low at 12 per 1,000 in 1989, has plummeted to about 6.5 per 1,000. There have been two unusually steep drops: the first in August 1990, a revealing nine months after the fall of the Berlin Wall; the second in the summer of 1991, nine months after German unification. Plainly, people have been too worried about their future to make the long-term investment in hope required to start a family...
Couples waiting to see how things transpire are relying on birth control -- or, more likely, abortion -- to put off the commitment. In many other cases the lack of hope is complete: thousands are opting for sterilization. In the state of Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, 6,224 women were sterilized in 1993, vs. 200 in 1989. Other eastern German states report a similar increase in sterilizations, most among those in the 30-to-40 age group. In some areas, as many as 1 in 5 making the permanent choice is under...