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Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, 80, who is well remembered for his short-lived stint as Chief of State in Germany after Adolf Hitler's death, is not happy about his place in history. Interviewed in the German magazine Die Welt, the semi-deaf "Big Lion" of the Nazi war fleet talked about what he considers his real accomplishments: "I was able to prevent 1,850,000 German soldiers from falling into Russian hands. Historians even claim 3,000,000 were saved. My position would be different were I not considered the political successor of Hitler...
...Apartments of the Princes or, familiarly, the Cage. There, behind fences, male children were able to grow to manhood and even old age safe from almost any danger-or knowledge of the outside world. On occasion, an aggressive mother still managed to send an executioner-traditionally a deaf-mute eunuch-into the Cage to strangle her son's rivals...
...bitterness deepened when British troops killed two men, one of them a deaf mute: the army said he had been waving a pistol, while Catholic bystanders claimed he was unarmed. Ulster's Catholics were also angered because the internment without trial had not applied equally to extremists on the other side; none of the 232 still held were Protestant. Elaborate rumors of their mistreatment circulated through Northern Ireland's six counties, leading William Cardinal Conway, Catholic Primate of All Ireland, to charge that "there is prima-facie evidence that entirely innocent men are being subjected to humiliating...
Possessed of an almost unsettling cool, Blue says that he concentrates so intently during a game that he is deaf to the cheers of the crowd. Before a game, he relaxes so thoroughly that he often falls asleep on the trainer's table. But once the game starts, he is a different man; he may be the only pitcher in the history of baseball who actually runs to and from the mound. "The A's are a hustling ball club," he says, "and I figured I should be there hustling with the rest of them...
...echo Maoist slogans, of shopkeepers who leave their goods out all night without fear of their being stolen, of a military establishment whose $150-a-month generals uncomplainingly accepted a sizable pay cut in 1969. Maoist thought, some of the travelers reported, has done away with corruption, enabled the deaf to regain their hearing, and inspired peasants to complete herculean engineering projects with tools no more sophisticated than their bare hands. "No one who has not lived here before," writes Canadian Diplomat Chester Ronning, "can fully appreciate the almost miraculous transformation...