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...International Peace, fears that World War III might begin not as World War II did, with a Nazi blitzkrieg in the West and a Japanese sneak attack in the East, but as World War I did, with a combination of bumbling, inadvertence, events getting out of control and just plain bad luck. Says he: "If there is ever a nuclear war, it will be like August 1914?a gradual losing of control. There would be rival alerts, no one backing down, no one wanting to fight, but a mounting confrontation that could lead to fighting...
Alice Bodnar, a 28 year old Jamaica Plain resident, was stabbed repeatedly in the back Monday afternoon near the Walter and Bussey St gate of the 278 acre arboretum Bodnar, who is still unconscious, remains in fair condition in Faulkner Hospital, a hospital spokesman said yesterday...
Over the years, the quality of U.S. intelligence emerging from Central America has ranged from superb to poor to just plain awful. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, as the CIA'S attention shifted to Southeast Asia and Washington relied more on space-age technology than undercover agents, intelligence operations in Central America deteriorated. In 1973 U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Turner Shelton consistently underplayed the opposition to President Anastasio Somoza in his reports home, thus blinding Washington to the signs of rising turmoil. Complains one U.S. specialist on Central American affairs: "Too often [our] ambassadors in the region felt...
...year-old Jamaica Plain resident was stabbed Monday afternoon at the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard's research and botanical gardens. Alice Bodnar was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors removed one of her lungs and gave her at least 30 pints of blood. Peter S. Ashton, director of the aboretum, said the attack was the worst incident at the facility in is three years there. No suspects have been found. Bodna is in fair condition...
...huge boar with a single shot, we moved to another stand even deeper in the forest. We remained there for some hours, and someone brought cold cuts, dark bread and beer from the jeep. Brezhnev's split personality-alternalively boastful and insecure, belligerent and mellow-was in plain view as we ate in that alfresco setting. The truculence appeared in his discussion of China. He spoke of his brother, who had worked there as an engineer before Khrushchev removed all Soviet advisers. He had found the Chinese treacherous, arrogant, beyond the human pale. They were cannibalistic...