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Responding to a protester's comparison of the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan to Hitler's invasion of Russia, a top Kremlin official yesterday defended his country's role in that nation...
...these, the most important literary event is Figaro. Horvath was 30 in 1931 when his sardonic Tales from the Vienna Woods won him Germany's Kleist Prize. But Hitler's rise to power aborted Horvath's career, and his reputation has | re-emerged only since the late 1960s. Figaro imagines the principal characters of Beaumarchais's 18th century farce The Marriage of Figaro thrust into a postrevolutionary modern world. Count Almaviva is a tyrant on the run, his wife a conniving businesswoman, the valet Figaro a nationalist longing to return to his newly free homeland, and his lady's-maid...
...Spain, political disunity had given way to civil war; on July 13, 1936, a military junta challenged the Popular Front coalition of Socialists, Communists and Republican Leftists formed in February of 1936. If the infant fascism took its first steps in Spain, it flexed its muscle in Hitler's Germany...
...Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra made the rounds in New York City last week during an eight-day visit to the U.S., it was easy to forget that he is the man who just a month ago called Ronald Reagan "a new Hitler." Instead, the seasoned comandante played the polished politician, while he embarked on a campaign to win American hearts and minds. During meetings with political, church and press groups, he answered questions with some candor, trying, though not always successfully, to steer clear of revolutionary jargon. Appearing before the United Nations Security Council, he appealed for U.N. endorsement...
...insisted that "there is one problem and only one in the world: to revive in people some sense of spiritual meaning." He also realized that such revivals are fraught with danger: "If the Germans are ready today to shed their blood for Hitler, you must understand that it is useless to blame Hitler. It is because Hitler gives the Germans something to be enthusiastic about." His vision of humanity revivified by passion and purpose was clouded by his view of history: "When the Spirit is aroused -- each time it is aroused -- it sheds blood...