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...four men suspected of trying to bomb London's transport system on July 21 were apprehended last week, another group of terrorists said it was laying down its weapons. In a DVD video, I.R.A. veteran Seanna Walsh - who spent 21 years in prison for munitions offenses - stood before an Irish flag to read a statement formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. By ordering its members to "dump arms" and adopt "exclusively peaceful means," the I.R.A. leadership signaled that their decades-long quest for Irish unity now rests in the hands...
...Japanese monster movies of the 1950s were one pop metaphor from the only people to have been the targets of an atom bomb. Barefoot Gen is another: a memoir (by writer-producer Keiji Nakazawa) of a boy's life in Hiroshima before and after the blast. Gen, on his way to school on Aug. 6, 1945, must become a man amid the city's charnel rubble. The stench of burning bodies will adhere to you; this is no movie for kids. It does have the awful poignancy of a national nightmare--and in cartoon form...
...SIROWIY, father of a 13-year-old Iraqi boy who underwent facial-reconstruction surgery in the U.S. for injuries caused by a U.S. cluster bomb, after he and his son visited Wal-Mart...
...Hiroshima TIME & Life Photo Essay after the bomb...
...Hiroshima TIME & Life Photo Essay after the bomb...