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Germans call it die unbewältigte Vergangenheit - the undigested past. By that, they mean the national burden of collective guilt from the Hitler years, which saw Germany start the largest war and commit the most heinous systematic crimes, including the annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews, that ever scarred the history of a civilized nation. Yet in recent years, many Germans, especially those who grew up since the war, have felt that the whole country was unjustly saddled with the burden of crimes committed by only a part of the population. As Foreign Minister Willy Brandt put it: "Twenty...
...Caldera as they hated the previous regime, which cracked down hard on leftist dissidents. Guerrilla leaders are weighing an offer of mediation by Jose Humberto Cardinal Quintero, and a dialogue of sorts is under way. When a Cabinet member, in a gesture to the leader of the oldest and largest band, promised that "the government's doors are open to Douglas Bravo, and if necessary, to Fidel Castro," Bravo's chief lieutenant cordially replied: "The mountain roads are open to President Caldera, and even Nixon...
...well armed. Constant attempts to infiltrate are made through the DMZ and along the coastline, both to terrorize the populace and to try to set off a guerrilla war in the south. In reply, South Korea maintains an armed force of 600,000, the world's fifth largest. Despite Seoul's complaints that its U.S.-supplied weapons are becoming increasingly outmoded, there is no doubt about the army's fighting spirit: the two ROK divisions in Viet Nam have compiled an impressive record. The army is backed up by the 2,500,000-man Homeland Reserve Force...
...World War II exploit, the flight was instead the latest example of the effectiveness of the private air force owned and operated by Japanese newspapers. Pilot Kumon flies full time for Asahi, Japan's largest daily (circ. 5,350,000), and his flight last week brought the world its first news, complete with pictures, of the U.S. Navy's massive move to protect electronic spy missions off Korea. His crewman's photographs of the U.S. carrier gave Asahi a brief edge in Japan's intense press rivalry, but some ten other press planes, including those...
Some U.S. newspapers own aircraft, but none has so many or uses them so regularly in news gathering as the largest Japanese dailies. Yomiuri's Hara has a point when he needles the major use of company planes by U.S. publishers. "We never fly executives-only reporters and photographers," he says...