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Israel harbors the deepest dread, as the collective survivor of the Holocaust that slaughtered 6 million Jews. "We cannot know where German enthusiasm may lead," Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote to Kohl not long ago. "The Jewish people cannot be enthusiastic about this union." Despite a carefully nurtured reconciliation between Jerusalem and Bonn, which has paid $33 billion in reparations to Jews, memories are powerful. When Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, aware that Bonn has often been Israel's best friend in Europe, said he did not "foresee any breakdown of the democratic institutions in West Germany," the daily Ma'ariv...
...would it? According to a report in last week's Science, the asbestos "crisis" is grossly exaggerated, and the public would do well to save its dread and its dollars. Says Brooke Mossman, a cell biologist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the lead author of the report: "Low-level exposure is not a threat to human health. The scare is unprecedented, and the amount spent on asbestos removal is ridiculous." In fact, say Mossman and her co-authors, removal often puts more asbestos into the air than was there in the first place...
...collected rain and dew off the roof of the building to drink and bathed every other day in water from a little stream close to the camp. Clumpy, grey porridge was the standard for breakfast, which we quickly learned to dread. In the morning we attended lectures in the bush, while the afternoons were free for personal research...
...country's joy quickly turned to dread. Progovernment forces staged a fierce comeback in Bucharest and other cities, plunging the country into civil war. In the heart of the capital, troops of the well-equipped 180,000-member security forces, the Securitate, battled army units for control of the fire- gutted presidential palace. At one point, members of the security forces reportedly burst into a meeting of demonstrators at the Opera House and sprayed the room with submachine guns. The violence assumed its own macabre rhythms. Whenever the fighting lessened, citizens would flood into the streets to celebrate Ceausescu...
...bipartisan anti-Soviet opposition. When a Watergate-wounded Nixon went to see Leonid Brezhnev in the Crimea in 1974, he refused to visit Yalta nearby, lest anyone accuse him of another giveaway. It was all for naught: the traveling White House press gleefully filed stories with the dread dateline...