Word: dresden
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...Dresden Danse at Axis...
...rule on noncombatants. This would be a situation in which a country faces not just defeat but the destruction of its people, society or culture as, for instance, Britain did at the hands of the Nazis in the early 1940s. But the allied attacks on German cities such as Dresden toward the end of World War II are now widely considered unwarranted because it was clear by then that the allies would win. Likewise, some military ethicists today believe the nuclear strikes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were unjust...
...Canada, in Europe and Asia, teams of scientists and designers are busily completing plans for innovative craft that will travel through space propelled solely by sunlight reflecting off their giant sails. At a meeting this fall of the International Astronautical Federation in Dresden, Germany, at least three of the ships will be picked to compete in a fantastic voyage: an unmanned sailing race to Mars...
...soon as ordinary people from Dresden and Potsdam, wearing tennis shoes and loaded with plastic bags and perambulators, were seen hobbling through the underbrush across the Hungarian border in the fall of 1989, crowding embassies in Warsaw and trains in Prague, there were raised eyebrows and mixed feelings in Bonn and elsewhere. For there is nothing dearer to the heart of responsible statesmen than stability. Yalta may have had certain drawbacks, but it was an arrangement one had learned to live with -- and in the end any situation seemed acceptable as long as it was "under control...
When he saw the night of revelry round the Brandenburg Gate and the flag- waving crowds in Dresden, he decided that the time was ripe for him to make History. Blinded by the vision of enthusiastic voters carrying him on their shoulders, he decided to forge ahead -- never mind the bickering of the Poles, the reluctance of the Soviets and the suspicions of the rest of the world. Kohl was not to be ruffled by the specter of a Fourth Reich evoked by foreign or domestic critics who accused him of jingoism, and for a few weeks he enjoyed...