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...scandal. The British and Irish governments rejected as too vague an I.R.A. statement supposedly detailing its commitment to give up all paramilitary activity. Republicans insisted the I.R.A.'s peaceful intentions were clear. Three-Way Split Iraq Coalition leaders announced that the country will be divided into three military sectors. Poland and Britain will each lead a multinational division overseeing one zone. The U.S. will keep reduced forces centered near Baghdad. The Bush Administration would like to avoid the stigma of American occupation and share the security of the country after weeks of violence and looting. Neighborly Advice zimbabwe South African...
During the last century, governments murdered millions more of their own innocent citizens in Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Vietnam, Poland, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, North Korea and Mexico. Perhaps the purest expression of a bloody Marxist revolution took place during a few years in the 1970s, when Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge exterminated 2.5 million of their 7 million souls. Over one-third of the population was intentionally murdered—and this number excludes the 1.5 million more killed in war or rebellion...
...fortress. He was wearing a new suit specially tailored for the occasion; it was lighter gray than the regular army uniform, with shiny gold buttons, a swastika and the Iron Cross medal he had won in the previous World War. As more than 1 million troops flooded into Poland and began taking civilian prisoners, Hitler drove to the Reichstag to appear before the Parliament. "I myself am today, and will be from now on, nothing but the soldier of the German Reich," he said. "I shall not take off this uniform until we have achieved victory." Within two days Britain...
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...World War II, Werner Otto fled with his family to Hamburg from their Soviet-occupied home in what is now Poland. He won a license from the British authorities occupying the town to start a shoe factory, and in 1949 he founded a mail-order firm that is now the core of the family fortune. His son Michael was 28 when he joined the firm in 1971, and he became chairman a decade later. At the time, Otto Versand was a thriving German business with sales of about $2.5 billion. Today, recently renamed Otto GmbH & Co., it's a worldwide...