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The direction and strength of the tide during the swim are central to one of the most important questions about Chappaquiddick: Why did Kennedy wait until almost ten hours after the accident before reporting it to the police? At a January 1970 inquest, he gave a vivid account of how...
The decade also had madmen working on a grander scale: Idi Amin, who slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people in Uganda; the Emperor Bokassa, who brought other homicidal variations on the heart of darkness to the Central African Republic. Millions of Cambodians and Vietnamese boat people were caught...
When one looks into the eyes of those who have lived through Dachau and Auschwitz, the Gulag and the Cambodian holocaust, Vietnam in the 1960's and Vietnam in the late 1970's, the terror in Kampala and the tanks in Prague, they bear witness to the same human reality...
By a bizarre coincidence, it was 50 years to the day-Nov. 28, 1929-since Commander Richard Byrd and three companions struggled across the region's perilous mountains, to complete the first flight over the South Pole in a Ford trimotor called the Floyd Bennett. Flight 901 was scheduled...
Darkness Visible, By William Golding. (Farrar, Straus Giroux, $10.95): Last time you read Golding you were in sixth grade: Teacher handed you Lord of the Flies; you read it, you staggered, and understood why the bully relished slamming the seesaw over your head during recess. You self-pityingly gazed in...