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Amin's public rhetoric pushes bombast to its limits. He has praised Adolf Hitler and plans to erect a memorial to der Führer in Kampala. Constantly lecturing world leaders, Amin has (in 1973) wished Richard Nixon "a speedy recovery from the Watergate affair"; advised President Gerald Ford to choose a black as U.S. Vice President; told Arab states to "train kamikaze pilots [to] beat Israel"; and denounced Julius Nyerere, the President of neighboring Tanzania, as "a whore who spreads gonorrhea all over Africa...
...still be the best work to begin with. For he confronts the Washington problem head on, not so much telling a life as examining it in an attempt to distinguish the original human shape from the contours of the final monument that patriotic 19th century historians helped erect. Cunliffe's conclusion is that the man and the monument merged even within Washington's lifetime. What we have left must simply pass for the real thing...
...attachments for many years on this side of the Atlantic. Their elder brother George, one of the few British generals who was popular in the Colonies, was killed fighting near Ticonderoga in 1758 during the French and Indian War. (The colony of Massachusetts even raised £250 to erect the monument to him that now stands in Westminster Abbey...
...union-dictated charge of $100,000 to erect the press platform, and another $100,000 to tear it down...
...scandal rumbled across West Point, Lieut. General Sidney B. Berry, 50, the academy's superintendent, fought to get the situation under control. A tough, erect veteran of two wars, Berry confessed to TIME, "I've never been in more of a combat situation than I am now. There are things that make me heartsick in the whole situation-so many young men may have violated the honor code. But, by God, I've been heartsick in battle and done what I have...