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...avoid the worst consequences, though only if the Administration pushes its own investigations hard enough and fast enough to convince its critics that it has at last provided a full and convincing explanation of its activities, and one that does not spare the highest officials. "I think one iron rule in situations like this is, whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately," said Henry Kissinger last week. "Anybody who eventually has to go should be fired now. Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now, or as quickly as possible, because otherwise . . . the bleeding will...
Emigrants from London, 83 percent of whom were male, were often drawn by the fortunes that could be made in the American iron industry and the rapidly growing construction business. Craftsmen of all kinds were in demand in the booming colonies, especially in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. Bailyn identifies the hardships of living in the great metropolis of London as an important motivation for emigration, terming the city with typical flair, "a tumultuous human agglomeration abounding in contrasts between wealth and poverty, elegance and brutality, beauty and squalor...
Economic self-reliance has gone hand in hand with militant nationalism. Beginning in the early '60s, Albania sprouted bunkers with narrow gun slits -- the result of a Hoxha-inspired defense campaign trumpeting the threat of imminent invasion by East and West. The regime has iron control over its population. In 1967 Hoxha launched a purge in which Muslim mullahs and Christian ministers were stripped of their duties and sent to farm and labor camps; some Catholic priests who resisted were killed. Result: the suppression of organized religion...
Hong Kong, which earlier this year banned imports of South Africa's gold Krugerrand coins, extended the sanctions to iron and steel. Imports of South African coal and diamonds, however, will still be allowed. Hong Kong also asked firms in the British crown colony to halt voluntarily new investments and loans to South Africa. Said Piers Jacobs, financial secretary of Hong Kong: "The measures would bring Hong Kong in line with those governments that are our principal trading partners...
...called him. But his bland appearance, which led one British diplomat to compare him to a "refrigerator when the lights have gone out," was deceptive. In a political and diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death at age 96, the loyal lieutenant and unquestioning henchman of Joseph Stalin had managed to hold out long enough to enjoy a bittersweet official rehabilitation in 1984 as one of the last survivors...