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...presiding mystery was Stalin--cultivator of lemon trees and roses, author of sweet, private kindnesses, a man who proudly displayed his piles of fresh, clean underwear (which he boasted he changed every day!). After Hiroshima, Stalin reflected, "War is barbaric, but using the Abomb is a superbarbarity." This from the man whose Ukrainian famine killed some 10 million, the impresario of the Great Terror, the man who, after Russian soldiers had raped some 2 million women across East Prussia and Germany, asked, "What is so awful about [a soldier's] having...
...HIROSHIMA: Hiroshima International Dojo Join housewives and school kids as they perfect their joint locks and breakfalls at evening classes held in a spacious high school gymnasium, tel: (81-82) 211 1271. Three foreign instructors, including International Aikido Federation chairman, Peter Goldsbury, provide individual attention. Membership is about $16 a month, but classes are free to prospective students...
...Center and Butokuden Gymnasium When not echoing with the grunts and shouts of judo and kendo competitors, this grand 100-year-old wooden pavilion hosts classes in shodokan aikido. They are taught by the formidable Nariyama Shihan. Enrollment fee is $55, plus monthly dues. tel: (81-6) 6622 2046. HIROSHIMA: Hiroshima International Dojo Join housewives and school kids as they perfect their joint locks and breakfalls at evening classes held in a spacious high school gymnasium. Three foreign instructors, including International Aikido Federation chairman, Peter Goldsbury, provide individual attention. Membership is about $16 a month, but classes are free...
...CHANG, who died last week of an apparent suicide, once asked a profound question: How could a brutal massacre in a Chinese city in World War II, in which the Japanese army killed thousands of people?a death toll possibly even higher than that of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?have been relegated to a historical footnote? Driven to find the answer, Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking, a landmark work of history that helped push the 1937 bloodbath into the public's consciousness and the then-29-year-old American to the forefront of nonfiction writing. Criticized...
...cold war who specialized in designing smaller, more powerful atom bombs - and then became a fierce antinuclear campaigner; in Silver Spring, Maryland. His "Davy Crockett" - a 23-kg device that fit in a suitcase - outpowered the lab's 4,091-kg "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the mid-1960s Taylor, alarmed at the proliferation of the devices, became a self-described "nuclear dropout." "My work at Los Alamos had been so intellectually stimulating but so insane," he said...