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...ironies of Owens' life are two-fold. Owens said upon his return from the Olympics that Americans had over-emphasized Hitler's refusal to shake his hand. After all, he added, in his own country Owens had to sit in the back of the bus. Ultimately, he said he was not considered an American athlete but a Black person. Owens' tragic death from lung cancer comes at a particular touchy time for the United States as president Carter and the Olympic Committee debate whether the country should enter the games scheduled for Moscow this summer...
Before the players were one, of course, they were three. Pressler, 56, was the son of a German clothing-store owner who fled Hitler to settle in Tel Aviv. As a boy, he got splinters in his fingers from practicing, because the keys of the family up right were worn to the wood. At 17, he journeyed to the Debussy competition in San Francisco to see how he might do against his contemporaries. He won, and promptly launched a U.S. concert career...
DIED. Heinz Linge, 67, Adolf Hitler's valet, an SS officer who claimed to be the last person to have seen the Führer and his new wife Eva Braun before their suicide in a Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945; of a heart attack; in Hamburg, West Germany. Linge denied Moscow's story that Hitler had dispatched himself with cyanide, maintaining that he used a pistol. Was Adolf mad in his final days? Never, the faithful servant Insisted; he killed himself only for the quite rational reason that "everything was hopeless...
...traded aesthetics for security considerations. The new Swedish embassy in Cairo is a forbidding concrete structure with a single street entrance, narrow slits for windows, and a protected inner courtyard backing on the Nile?for quick escape by boat if necessary. More than anything, it is said to resemble Hitler's bunker. Finally, another comparatively hardhearted approach gaining adherents even in the U.S. State Department is simply to be tougher in striking back next time?as the Soviets would probably be. "Tehran would never happen to the Soviets," says U.S. Antiterrorism Expert Robert Kupperman. "If it did, they would wipe...
Joseph Doyle, assistant Secretary of the Navy, compared the Russian invasion of Afghanistan to the threat of Hitler and Mussolini prior to World...