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...hardly better than a high school essay. Then came revelations of similar huge consulting fees to other political buddies. Chicagoans' anger increased. Finally stung, Bilandic made a bizarre speech in which he likened the attacks on him to the Crucifixion and the criticism of the city to the Holocaust. He charged that the same "subversives" who had toppled governments in Iran and Cambodia were now trying to undermine Chicago...
...Holocaust and the Final Solution--Prof. Erich Golhagen, Lehman Hall private dining room, 12 noon...
...argued that they had received a ten-minute ultimatum from the terrorists, and had heard an unexplained shot inside the hotel seconds before they acted. At 12:50 p.m. Afghan army commandos and police stormed the room with a 40-second assault that one eyewitness described as "a complete holocaust" of gunfire and explosions. In the cordite smoke, Dubs was found slumped in a chair, dying of multiple wounds; it was unclear whose bullets had hit him. Afghan officials later exhibited what they claimed were the four bullet-ridden bodies of the terrorists...
John F. Kennedy and his advisers. They were, he claims, intimidated by Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, who had been making grim references to a nuclear holocaust if the West did not get out of Berlin, where it had had a legal right to be since 1945. Beneath the bluster, however, Khrushchev was behaving cautiously. At first, he resisted East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's request to build the Wall. When the barrier was erected, Western leaders reacted with relief. They had been expecting much worse...
Many callers demanded to know why West Germans themselves had not produced such a film. Replied Political Scientist Eugen Kogon, an expert on the Nazi era: "We would not be capable because we are not imaginative enough to make such a film." At Holocaust's conclusion, most West Germans agreed that the broadcast had been a public service. Though a few mistakes may exist," said Schmidt, "the film is correct; it compels one to critical and moral reflection...