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...past two year, contributors across the country have created banner segments in accordance with he scheme "What I would miss most in a nuclear war." According to organizers, each state will bring its finished product to Washington on August 4, the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The 50 ribbons will be tied together and strung around the government complex in a weekend-long demonstration that has been approved by the Pentagon through the General Services Administration...
Mazda Motor of Hiroshima, well known for the rotary engine that is the soul of its spirited RX-7 sports car, is joining Japan's automotive invasion of the U.S. Mazda announced last week that it would start producing cars in Michigan in 1987, bringing to four the number of Japanese automakers manufacturing in the U.S. Honda has a plant in Marysville, Ohio; Nissan has one in Smyrna, Tenn., and Toyota will begin producing cars this month in a venture with General Motors in Fremont, Calif. Mazda plans to construct a $450 million assembly plant near a Ford foundry...
Brave words, if not wise ones. But Henze, a sybaritic socialist with a well-developed taste for capitalist pleasures, has never let politics stand in the way of artistic success. He excoriates the Nazis, the treatment of blacks in the South and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, while overlooking such evils as Stalin's Gulag. Yet the opera's blinkered world view is secondary to its musical and dramatic substance-for the audience and, perhaps, for the composer as well...
Besides, the terms of war changed in the world. After Normandy and Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe" came Hiroshima, and then the cold war and the pervasive, sinister presence of the Bomb that has made crusades more problematic. If a confrontation like Normandy were to transpire now between superpowers, a struggle to the death, it might be called Armageddon...
AUGUST 6, 1945, JAPAN: the United States drops a 13 kiloton atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, killing approximately one hundred thousand people. In Nagasaki, three days later, another bomb is dropped, killing nearly seventy thousand people Shortly afterwards. American military and political leaders begin planning Operation Crossroads, designed to demonstrate the effects of atomic explosions on naval vessels...