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Died. Albrecht Goetze, 74, dean of Babylonian scholars; of a heart attack; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Branded "politically unreliable" by the Nazis, Goetze fled to the U.S. in 1934 and joined the faculty at Yale, where he served as Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature for three decades. One of his biggest contributions to the understanding of the ancients started by chance in 1948: he stumbled across some neglected tablets in the Iraq Museum. Eventually he identified them as one of the world's oldest known body of laws-the Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which...
...exiled Catholic King of England, James II, landed in Ireland to fight to reclaim his throne from William of Orange. But James failed to take Londonderry, despite a 105-day siege, and the following year, at the Battle of the Boyne, he was finally defeated and fled to France. By 1700 the Catholics owned only one-seventh of their own soil...
Said one Palestinian at the Shati refugee camp: "All I ask are equal rights and my home." A small landowner, he fled from Ashkelon during the 1948 war; 23 years later, he still considers Gaza a temporary abode. "If it is impossible for me to return to my land and to the graves of my family," he insists, "it is better for me to be thrown into...
...hours later. Another woman says that when the soldiers came to her door, she hid her children in her bed; but seeing them beneath the blanket, the soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding another. According to one report from the Press Trust of India (P.T.I.), 50 refugees recently fled into a jute field near the Indian border when they heard a Pakistani army patrol approaching. "Suddenly a six-month-old child in its mother's lap started crying," said the P.T.I, report. "Failing to make the child silent and apprehending that the refugees might be attacked, the woman throttled...
...means have all the reprisals been the work of the army. Bengalis also massacred some 500 suspected collaborators, such as members of the right-wing religious Jammat-e-Islami and other minor parties. The Biharis, non-Bengali Moslems who fled from India to Pakistan after partition in 1947, were favorite?and sometimes innocent?targets. Suspected sympathizers have been hacked to death in their beds or even beheaded by guerrillas as a warning to other villagers. More ominous is the growing confrontation along the porous 1,300-mile border, where many of the Pakistani army's 70,000 troops are trying...