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At 10 a.m. the next day in Berlin, in the ornate Kroll Opera, where the Reichstag had met ever since a mysterious outbreak of arson gutted its traditional headquarters in 1933, Chancellor Hitler arrived wearing the "sacred coat" of the German infantryman and used the crudely faked fracas in Gleiwitz...
With the notable exception of the John Tower fracas, Bush has muted public controversy. He cut a deal with Congress to quiet the poisonous contra-aid issue. He tiptoed out of the Eastern Air Lines strike early and into the Alaskan oil spill belatedly. Twice in the past few days...
Prosecutors insisted that disclosure of the documents would hurt national security. They offered to make available a summary of the documents, but Sullivan objected that it "omits critical details." On Friday, Gesell nonetheless accepted the prosecution's offer and, with that settled, designated Tuesday as the date for the trial...
After the initial Nanjing fracas, some 140 African and other foreign students were held under protective guard at a guesthouse for ten days. On Dec. 31, provincial authorities sent paramilitary police into the guesthouse to arrest "ringleaders" among the Africans. Armed policemen allegedly herded coatless students outside in zero-degree...
Last week those resentments flared into a weeklong upheaval involving some 5,000 demonstrators in the eastern city of Nanjing. The turmoil began on Christmas Eve, when a fracas broke out between a small group of African students and a security guard at the gate of Hehai University, which has...