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At age 92, 1 hope to see Halley's comet the second time around. In 1910 our high school math teacher in my hometown, Nuremberg, Germany, took us to the medieval imperial castle, which overlooks the old city, and here we watched with awe the celestial phenomenon, never to be...
The eldest son of a well-to-do landowner, Deng grew up in a period of violent unrest, climaxed but not ended by the revolution of 1911 in which Sun Yat-sen brought down the imperial Qing dynasty. When Deng was about 15, his father enrolled him in one of...
For the Marcoses, however, leaving may be the best revenge. In the manner of deposed royalty, they have apparently taken the lion's share of their wealth into Hawaiian exile with them, together with their imperial habits. Last week the Pentagon reported that the cost of transporting and supporting Marcos...
The Navy's 14 flattops range in age and size from the World War II-vintage Midway (64,000 tons) to the nuclear-powered Vinson (91,487 tons), commissioned in 1982. Each carrier can launch a mix of planes for self-defense and hitting enemy targets. The Vinson, for example...
Maybe not this year. As President Reagan and his aides prepare to fly this week to Bali for a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and then to Tokyo for the twelfth annual summit, on May 4 to 6, the excursion augurs well to be both a practical...