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...criticism directed at Ronald Reagan last week, the voice of Elie Wiesel stood out for its passion and simple eloquence. At week's end, in a dramatic coincidence of timing, the author and concentration-camp survivor was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement by Reagan at the White House. Excerpts from Wiesel' s remarks at the ceremony...
...Hitler's last acts was to get married. His acquiescent mistress Eva Braun (the dictator was in fact impotent) had yearned for years for the respectability of a wedding license, and now she was to achieve it. She wore a black taffeta afternoon dress with two gold clasps at the shoulders. A minor party official with the coincidentally appropriate name of Wagner (Hitler's favorite composer) was brought in from his militia post to perform the brief ceremony. As the law prescribed, both bride and groom swore that they were Aryans. Wagner signed the marriage certificate, glanced at his watch...
...role abroad commensurate with his country's flourishing democracy, strong support for NATO, and eminence as the non-Communist world's third-largest economic power. Internally, he intended to put a new gloss on national pride and patriotism by increased emphasis on symbols such as the red, black and gold national flag and more frequent playing of the national anthem...
...some $250,000; and in a trial that began last Friday in Los Angeles, Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov, two Soviet émigrés, are accused of attempting to buy secrets from Richard Miller, an FBI agent who was allegedly tempted by a promise of $65,000 in cash and gold. The list goes on: in the past 15 months, 15 people in the U.S. have been arrested for spying. "We have more people charged with espionage right now than ever before in our history," FBI Director William Webster said recently...
...because they shrouded themselves in self-created legends. In fact, he insists, the family treated national funds as play dough, milking the opium market, pocketing American loans and hatching so many wartime scams that within five months of being installed at a rate of four to $1, the gold yuan had plunged to a rate of 1 million to $1. He further repeats the familiar charge that in 1934 the Generalissimo, hell-bent on settling scores with the Chinese Communists instead of fighting the Japanese enemy, followed the advice of a Nazi strategist, creating a scorched-earth policy...