Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adolf Eichmann was dead and his ashes thrown into the Mediterranean, but his execution will probably stir debate for years to come. The first critical postmortem came from Jewish Philosopher Martin Buber. All along, Buber had been opposed to the trial because it cast Israel in the role of both accuser and judge (he would have preferred an international tribunal). He also felt that the death penalty was wrong because no punishment could really expiate the Nazi crimes. Eichmann's execution, explained Buber last week, may only give Germany's youth an easy way of escaping the guilt...
Over the Wall. But if it is relatively safe, Monaco is one of the world's most exciting auto races. The course plunges wildly through the 368-acre Mediterranean principality itself, swooping up the narrow streets from the harbor, past the Hotel de Paris and Cartier's, and zigzagging down again from the Casino gardens through a tunnel to the waterfront...
Long ago, the Israeli government had decided that to bury Eichmann's remains would mean desecrating Israeli soil. So, in a nickel container, Eichmann's ashes were taken 18 miles out to sea aboard an Israeli patrol boat and, as the sun rose over the mist-hung Mediterranean, scattered to the winds and water...
...already there could be flown out. In the next two weeks, to deal with the waiting list of 40,000, Air France Boeing 707s will fly a shuttle from Algiers to Paris, and two passenger ships a day will leave for ports on France's Mediterranean coast. Said a departing Algiers refugee: "Our city is dying...
...army can reach. It cannot be otherwise." - On the Red-supported Greek civil war: "The uprising has to fold up. What do you think, that Great Britain and the United States-the most powerful state in the world-will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean Sea! Nonsense. And we have no navy." Djilas' personal impressions of Stalin confirm the cruel portrait drawn previously by others. No man was obscure enough to escape Stalin's barbs; once, recalls Djilas, it was a waiter whom Stalin forced to share a toast at a diplomatic reception...