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...would like to have a family, children, children! Oh, God, you know how much I love children . . . But I have to deny myself this happiness. I have another bride--Germany! I am married: to the German Volk. " This high-minded sentimentality contrasts grotesquely with private reality. The extent of Hitler's love affair with his niece Geli Raubal may never be clear, but there is enough evidence to indicate that his half sister's 23-year-old daughter was not happy with her Uncle Adolf's attentions. In 1931 Raubal shot herself through the heart. Hitler attended the autopsy...
...centralized socialist state, Tanzania has bolstered democratic institutions to a surprising extent. The country's constitution was amended last year to include, for the first time, a bill of rights guaranteeing fundamental freedoms, to strengthen the 244-seat Parliament and to provide for the direct election of more of its members. The President can still order preventive detention for as long as six months, but the names of those detained must now be published, and the legality of detentions can be challenged in the courts, which are refreshingly independent...
...some people are at cocktail parties; she is able to find a plausible argument for almost any evil that governments commit, and she has turned Lemon into her philosophical clone. "Lemon presents the justification for pure selfishness," says Shawn, "even for sadistic murder. The question is raised: To what extent have we already accepted these justifications? I intentionally set out to leave the audience frustrated and unsatisfied...
...morning, Managing Editor Jason McManus decided to put the Colombian disaster on the magazine's cover. World Senior Editor Henry Muller quickly mustered a team of editors, writers and reporter-researchers to deal with the mass of information. Says Muller: "Each hour we got a better idea of the extent of the tragedy. We tore up the World section and changed the whole direction of the week's effort...
Clarke noted that John and Michael had struck a plea bargain with the Government by trading information on the extent of their espionage for less-than-maximum sentences. But, he asserted, there was no justification for leniency in sentencing Arthur. Prosecutor Tommy Miller hinted that the retired Navy lieutenant commander had been engaged in the family spy business longer and more deeply than he had admitted. (One revelation at Arthur's sentencing was that he had had an affair with his brother's wife Barbara.) Said Miller: "We have gotten a confession, but we have not gotten the whole truth...