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...next day Israel sent its jets and helicopter gunships to bomb three Palestinian bases, including two refugee camps, outside Tripoli in northern Lebanon. Lebanese officials said 15 people were killed and 29 wounded. Some analysts suggested that the air raids came in response to recent bombings inside Israel, including attacks in two Tel Aviv suburbs; others viewed the Israeli strikes as a direct reprisal for the Tuesday car bombings. Israeli officials denied that the air attacks and the suicide bombings were linked...
...malignancy from Reagan's bowel, and Dr. Rosenberg quickly explained that the President had a better-than-50% chance to live out his normal life. But the medical experts could not rule out the possibility that cancerous cells had escaped into the bloodstream and, like a microscopic time bomb, seeded themselves in another organ. If cancer should recur, the President could face a long and debilitating course of therapy that would make the heavy burden of the presidency more onerous...
...from an informer and an unspecified sum that went to a clandestine U.S. base at which East bloc weaponry is evaluated. Collins, a much decorated war hero who flew 104 missions over North Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos in 1969-70, had described the fund as "a political time bomb," set to go off if its existence were ever made public. The secret account was closed five months before the general retired in 1978. JUSTICE Kiss on the Wrist for the Madam...
Early on the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, named for the pilot's mother, cut east to west across the rivers of Hiroshima, opened its hatches, and an atom bomb fell free. From that moment to this, nothing has ever been the same in the world. The people of Hiroshima, the course of World War II, subsequent wars, subsequent peace, the position of science, the role of the military, international politics, the nature of knowledge, art, culture, the conduct of lives: all changed. Other ages in history were characterized by heroes or by ideas. The atomic...
Forty years later, what is Hiroshima? What happened there to make it impossible for the world to turn back? How has the Bomb served the world, and how is the world supposed to live with...