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Around noon on Monday, Indian soldiers descend on villages just a few miles from the desert test range and order the pacifist Bishnoi herdsmen, who refuse to kill animals or cut down trees, to evacuate. At precisely 3:45 p.m., three devices explode in five seconds: a normal fission bomb, a low-yield bomb for tactical battlefield use and something like a hydrogen bomb, which U.S. officials later insist could have been only a less powerful "boosted" weapon using tritium fuses to amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful...
...ever deepening levels, however, Branch's follow-up to his Pulitzer-prizewinning Parting the Waters (1988) is dark and boding--a chronicle of deaths foretold. King no longer holds center stage as he did in the first volume. Challenges to the Georgia preacher's pacifist leadership begin to emerge from Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam and later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy...
...teenager he thought of becoming a preacher. Luckily for American art, and perhaps for the ministry too, he ditched the notion on realizing that the Church of Christ forbade dancing. He did a stint in the Navy, as a male psychiatric nurse--which confirmed him as a lifelong pacifist. He dabbled in painting, then (after his discharge from the Navy) began to study it, first in Kansas City and then, having saved up some money for the trip, in Paris...
...attack on Fidel Castro, one former State Department diplomat explained that "we have a Secretary of State with cojones." (If you don't know this word, ask someone who speaks Spanish.) No, Madeleine Albright is not afraid to break her nails. She is not introducing a stereotypically feminine or pacifist influence in foreign affairs. Yes, Albright can play hardball just like the boys...
...long as we give our love and respond more to "an officer and a gentleman" instead of to "a private and a pacifist," men will tend to confuse love and respect with rank and, having defined themselves that way, will feel that the loss of rank is the loss of self--hence suicide. What can we do? If we use Admiral Boorda's suicide to deepen our understanding, then his death will save more lives via prevented suicides than he would have saved in commanding men effectively during wartime. WARREN FARRELL Encinitas, California...