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...seven columns soon isolated the Nationalists in their cities and drew them out for costly battles that chewed up whole divisions without gaining ground for either side. Bled and battered, the Nationalist-held cities began to fall: by October 1948, Lin's forces held Mukden, Changchun and the Liaotung Peninsula, and had killed or captured 400,000 of Chiang's troops (including 36 generals replete with their arsenals). Then, advancing an average of six miles a day, Lin struck out for Peking, which fell 1"5 weeks later...
...Bull concluded a scientific agreement in Budapest; and a delegation of Polish parliamentarians arrived in Brussels to have a look at the Common Market. Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan for a Polish tool fair...
...eldest, Don Alfonso, inherited the family hemophilia and bled to death after a 1938 auto accident; the second, Don Jaime, a deaf-mute, renounced the throne, though he later renewed his claim...
...with two East German girls in the car (the Reds sentenced him to twelve years at hard labor). The driver, Horst's brother Heinz, 27, sprinted for the boundary 15 feet away. Just as he got there, a machine-gun slug caught him in the jugular vein. He bled to death three feet inside West Berlin-the 65th person known to have been slain at the Wall...
NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Catton. Deservedly the bestselling of Civil War historians, Catton shows the South overwhelmed and analyzes two great leaders: Lincoln, who resisted vindictive penalties on the South, and Lee, who refused to start a guerrilla war in the Virginia hills, which would have bled the country...