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Those graceful and profound words were delivered 20 years ago on a muggy June morning at American University. John Kennedy's Inaugural Address and Berlin speech are best known to the public. But when Ted Sorensen, J.F.K.'s chief wordsmith, is asked which Kennedy talk was the greatest, he says with no hesitation, "The American University speech...
DIED. William Henry Tunner, 76, Air Force general and genius of military air transport; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Va. He commanded three of the 20th century's historic airlifts: the World War II cargo transport over the Himalayan "Hump" from India to China, the massive 1948-49 Berlin operation that moved 13,000 tons a day of coal and food to the Soviet-blockaded city, and the Korean War's Combat Cargo Command that air-dropped supplies to U.S. troops trapped in North Korea by the Chinese...
...Martinson, manager of the Appalachian Mountain Club's Pinkham Notch hut, said Brockman's accident occurred at 1:15 p.m. and that Brockman was taken to Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin, N H. where he was pronounced dead on arrival from massive head and internal injuries...
This winter, however, the guerrillas launched an offensive that enabled them to score several psychologically damaging victories by briefly holding the towns of Berlin, Corinto and Meanguera. Alarmed, Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, sent National Security Adviser William P. Clark a report that the military situation in El Salvador was actually far worse than the U.S. embassy was saying...
...both a daring departure from his earlier work and a triumph of narrative control. The long duel between George Smiley of British intelligence and Karla, his opposite number in the Soviet Union, came to an end in Smiley's People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves in a global game of chess. Smiley and Karla had the time to outwait and outthink each other. What little bloodshed both could cause was accidental...