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...threat of direct nuclear clash between the U.S. and Russia has all but vanished for the foreseeable future. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 taught Moscow how easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets...
...Last Chapter. To a generation once removed from the holocaust of European Jewry, The Last Chapter will be an illuminated manuscript of what once was and can never be again. To some of those whose memories are longer, it will be a film almost too bitter to bear...
...surface," he wrote, a casual observer might see an "air of precipitate haste that accompanies presidential decisions when new crises erupt. But underlying such agitation there also appears to be a remark ably calm resolve not to be provoked by minor pinpricks nor to be impelled toward holocaust by local explosions...
...conference in which the National Liberation Front confronts the U.S. admits of any real hope. If this can be brought about, we may find the way out of what now appears an impasse, and the U.N. once again will have been the instrument that has saved the world from holocaust...
Friend Betrayed. The relations between Thomas and Alvero are poisoned, for the King appoints Thomas the Grand Inquisitor of all Spain. Absolute power corrupts him absolutely. He has caused heretics to be burned before; now he accepts the King's commission as a mandate for an anti-Semitic holocaust. Thomas' hatred is not for Jews (who, he thinks, are damned anyway) but for the marrano, the converted Jew who might secretly practice Jewish rites. Fatally, Don Alvero is such a one, or could be mistaken for one by malice and fanaticism. And so, Torquemada puts his friend...