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...this decennial might be made the occasion for a full-scale rehabilitation of Stalin, and some feared that this would be accompanied by an increase in repression. They pointed to the gradual refurbishing of the dictator's image as a wartime leader, particularly in such military memoirs as Marshal Georgy Zhukov's. They also noted that the growing movement for civil rights and for increased intellectual freedom in the Soviet Union has led to the arrest and trial of writers and religious dissenters, the harsh treatment of some minorities and cruel treatment of political prisoners...
...Desert Island Discs, a popular BBC radio program that asks celebrities what books and records they would want with them on the proverbial desert island, the questions were put to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 82. No problem with the book. Montgomery unhesitatingly chose his own History of Warfare, emphasizing that its most valuable passages deal with "how we could stop people fighting." That question is now foremost in his mind. Asked to choose his favorite disc, the old soldier could not decide between The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Oh, For the Wings of a Dove...
...generals is Hasso von Manteuffel, who in 1944 led the Fifth Panzer Army, one of the two spearheads of the battle. Manteuffel, 72, now lives in quiet retirement near Munich. He told Cate how he and other officers under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief West, protested that Hitler had set an impossible timetable by ordering a two-day rush to the Meuse, 50 miles distant. "Das ist unwiderruflich [This is irrevocable]," said General Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations at supreme headquarters, slamming his fist on a conference table. Manteuffel, a dedicated bridge player, suggested that Hitler...
...being identified in the public mind as "Nixon's inflation." The American people are angered and frustrated by inflation, and the polls show that an overwhelming majority criticize Nixon's handling of the persistent problem. Moreover, Nixon believes that he must stabilize the economy before the nation can effectively marshal the resources to carry through the social and environmental programs for which so many voters are clamoring...
...Died. Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 88, one of Soviet Communism's ranking figures for half a century; in Moscow. Voroshilov was a tireless agitator during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, rallying workers and soldiers, helping to organize the dreaded Cheka (secret police); during the civil war that followed, he distinguished himself as one of the founders of the Red armed forces, and in 1925 was appointed Commissar of War. Blindly loyal to Stalin, in 1935 he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union, and rose to the post of assistant chairman of the party's defense committee. With Stalin...