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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born an African American in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died an American African 95 years later in Accra, Ghana. His lifetime included two Johnson Administrations (Andrew's and Lyndon's) and stretched from the betrayal of Reconstruction to the unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt; 735 pages...
...former Macy's department-store maintenance engineer who has had his finger in more than one American intelligence pie. In 1983 Kattke helped Oliver North prepare the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. He was also on hand in Haiti in 1986 when Baby Doc Duvalier was ousted. (Raymond Burghardt, who oversaw Latin American affairs for the National Security Council at the time, credits Kattke with "knowing that Baby Doc would be toppled before the U.S. embassy...
...with indigestion. "Ninety percent of truck-stop food isn't worth speaking about," shudders seven-year Veteran Driver Tom Burghardt of Hicksville, N.Y. He estimates he will save $200 a month on motel and food bills with his new $22,500 Double Eagle Windjammer. Dave Kahlig and his wife Mitch of Fort Recovery, Ohio, have yet to install a microwave in their 66- in., $11,000 Double Eagle sleeper. But they have a refrigerator and cook foil-wrapped meats on the truck's engine between the red-hot turbo pipes. "It takes about 10 to 15 miles to cook...
Inevitably, the fence has separated friends and families. "Eighty percent of our people have relatives over there," says Deputy Mayor Günter Burghardt of Rasdorf (pop. 1,700), gesturing at the town of Geisa (pop. 4,000) across the fence, less than two miles away. "Many were born over there, went to school there, or had jobs there. Now we have to look west, not east, for all that." Though Rasdorf and Geisa are in plain sight of each other, telephone calls between them take up to eight hours to complete, and getting from one to the other...
...time we hear that a friend or loved one has died over there," says Burghardt, "he's long since buried." Farther north along the fence at Unterbreizbach, however, there is a cemetery on the eastern side next to the border; a grim watchtower soars amid the headstones. As Easterners bury their dead under the scrutiny of border guards, West Germans gather to watch, pray and lay wreaths against the border markers. "We don't know who they are," says a local butcher, "but our hearts go out to them anyway. Don't forget, we are all Germans...