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...reporter lucky enough to get a glimpse of history being forged. For 20 minutes, Hitler stood beside his SS chauffeur in his special Mercedes-Benz, engulfed in the frightening adoration that he ignited. Hitler's car moved slowly; his bodyguards in other vehicles patrolled at the sides, automatic weapons laid out on the car floors. The bareheaded Hitler, so ordinary a man in himself, seemed transformed. "The nonchalant flip of the hand and a faint smile acknowledged the tributes," Helms recalls. "Even little children spontaneously shot out their arms." The bright sun glanced off the red Nazi flags hanging everywhere...
Last week Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin laid out his unflinching quid pro quo for hostage trades in Lebanon. "We must have commanders and leaders of the terror organizations," he said. "Only when they are in our hands can we move ((them)) to exchange prisoners." Jerusalem has not hesitated to resort to kidnaping in the past. In 1983 Israeli troops in Beirut kidnaped the nephew of Ahmed Jabril, head of the P.F.L.P. --General Command and later the suspected mastermind of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Two years later Israel swapped the captured nephew -- and 1,150 Palestinians held...
Antiapartheid activists are convinced that the increase in legal challenges has changed public perceptions and laid a basis for the law commission's extraordinary working paper. The final report will be presented to Parliament early next year and, while there is no likelihood that the government will embrace the paper, the debate will give new legitimacy to civil rights workers, who are too often seen as dangerous leftists in South Africa. State Judge Jack Etheridge of Atlanta, who recently spent seven months in Johannesburg, insists that the best counsel is to "test the government"in court. As the legal activists...
Last week those hopes lay in rubble. Rather than risk losing power, Shamir chose to scuttle his peace diplomacy. He sidestepped a challenge to his leadership by embracing four conditions laid down by hard-line Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon and his allies and plainly designed to be unacceptable to the Palestinians. Most indigestible was a restriction barring the 140,000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem from participating in the proposed elections. Shamir also agreed that Israel would not return any of the occupied territories to "foreign sovereignty," that the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank...
Later books grew out of the need for fresh subjects. "England is not laid out like Trinidad. Its life goes on behind closed doors," he notes. "To get material, I've had to travel." What Naipaul conveyed in nonfiction such as An Area of Darkness and The Loss of El Dorado and in his novels Guerrillas and A Bend in the River changed Western perceptions of the underdeveloped world. Free of their colonial keepers, new nations had to confront their own hearts of darkness. In Africa the author found tribalism overgrowing hopes of progress; in India he observed that poverty...