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...levee near Jackson Square in the French Quarter, you can see the Mississippi flowing by at about seven feet above street level. It's a big, brown, mean-looking river, just waiting for the next hurricane to sweep away all the pretty, shabby stucco buildings with their fancy wrought iron balconies. Local people know this, just as they know that the city is sinking under their feet and that there aren't many jobs around now that all the oil and chemical companies are going under. But they don't seem to care much. They keep sinking with their city...
...question on everyone's lips: What would the activist Pope tell his authoritarian host and oppressed flock? Pinochet, 71, is one of South America's two remaining military dictators.* A practicing Roman Catholic, as are 10 million of Chile's 12 million people, he has ruled with an iron hand, claiming that the threat of Communism justified his repressive regime. Opponents accuse the government of imprisoning, torturing and killing thousands of ordinary citizens. Americas Watch, the U.S. human rights group, recently called Chile a "model of the national-security state...
...history of trade sanctions, however, shows how dangerous commercial conflicts can be. One sobering example dates back to 1941, when the U.S. and other Western powers imposed sanctions on the export of iron and manganese to Japan for its incursions into Manchuria. That embargo played a role in the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor. Nothing remotely similar in the way of hostility, of course, looms in the current trade battle. But as the two sides confront each other, they need to be acutely aware that deep antagonisms over trade can often contain the seed of future disaster...
...what exactly were their beliefs? The 20 July plotters were mainly German army officers who wanted to salvage something from a losing war. They seemed happy to follow the Fuhrer while he was winning. Many soldiers from noble families were willing to die for their country but were ironically spared when Hitler pulled them out of the front lines: he did not want to create upper- class heroes. Vassiltchikov has little to say about bravery on the battlefield or anywhere else. She simply reports the daily toll with the same matter-of- factness that she describes toilet-paper rationing...
After pumping iron to flush his muscles with blood, Remar slipped into a skimpy orange Speedo, donned a straw hat and strutted the beach before a line of spring-break beauties, who beamed and clapped in approval. Consensus on the flutter factor: 8 or 9, which is pretty amazing for someone who justifiably rated his hunk index at 0 a year ago. Even the college guys hooted and howled in agreement. An older fellow, Philip Finn, who was on vacation from Plains, Pa., was also awed, but confided to me, "What I'm interested in watching is whether he keeps...