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Buffalo & Beef It was the sort of hopeful sentiment that independence inevitably evokes in black Africa. As Botswana's birthday gifts indicated, Africa's 33rd new nation of the decade faces a combination of problems that bode ill for future success. The former British colony of Bechuanaland is a Texas-size sprawl of sand, rock and scrub-thorn; elephants, buffalo and springbok outnumber the scrawny Tswana cattle on which its 576,000 people depend for a living; in the fifth year of drought, both cattle and men are facing starvation. As if that were not enough, black Botswana...
...purchased it in Rome for upward of $40,000. Considered to be the original for a marble in the Bargello museum, the bust was then attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio or possibly his pupil, Leonardo da Vinci, by the Bargello's director and the late connoisseur Wilhelm von Bode...
Snuffling in handkerchiefs, their stringy hair drawn back in buns, the 14 hefty women huddled in the dock looked more like a woebegone Kaffeeklatsch of housewives than a team of killers for the Nazi cause. They were criminals all the same, maintained Munich State Attorney Manfred Bode, and they were charged with more than 800 deaths. Between 1942 and 1945, these 14 "angels of death" had worked as nurses at the Obrawalde insane asylum in Brandenburg, where, under Adolf Hitler's "euthanasia" program, more than 8,000 physical and mental "defectives" were put to death...
Through the Keyhole. In three weeks of testimony, Bode unfolded a grisly story. Obrawalde was a large, handsome sanatorium surrounded by parks, and relatives were told how lucky their demented loved ones were to be so close to nature. But when patients arrived, a male nurse examined them, then assigned the strong ones to "Department 19," which meant the forced-labor camp. The weak ones went to "Department 20," the death room. "I was first told about the killings," testified Obrawalde's dentist, "by a group of children who had watched through the keyhole...
...Volpe stood firm, and once again Massachusetts has become a cynosure of ridicule. The reasons for Volpe's irresponsible action, and even worse, the results, bode poorly for Massachusetts...