Word: russias
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Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Mountbatten of Burma was born at Frogmore House, Windsor, in 1900, just as the sun was passing over the yardarm of Empire. His father was Prince Louis of Battenberg, a German kinsman of Czar Nicholas II of Russia and later Britain's First Sea Lord. Queen Victoria held him in her arms as he was christened Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas. The Battenbergs called their baby son Nickie, but its Russian connotation at that time prompted them to change the nickname to Dickie, much as the family name was later anglicized to Mountbatten...
...shift away from confrontation with Russia to its present policy of détente has also impelled many scholars to take a fresh look at the cold war, that byproduct of World War II. Many of the origins of the cold war sprang from decisions made during hostilities. The Allied decision to halt Patton on his dash toward Berlin, for example, isolated the German capital and made it a focal point of confrontation in the postwar era. Says History Professor Robert Dallek of U.C.L.A.: "We have to go back. Where we are now is a direct result of what evolved...
...Jersey Petroleum Executive Miles Lerman, a survivor of Nazi slave labor camps in Russia, agreed. "There is no way to measure what the Germans did against the helpless. Still you can't allow it to kill your own life. You must go on. And speak out: about Africa, the boat people, anyone in trouble...
...Scandinavia, no concessions had to be wrung from the government or from private sources. During the German occupation, Denmark had saved some 7,000 Jews by spiriting them to Sweden; and before he disappeared in Russia, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish citizen, had saved nearly 30,000 Hungarian Jews by arranging special trains and supplying false papers. Yet no matter how the commissioners praised members of the Danish resistance, the veterans kept insisting that they had only done "the normal thing." Conceded Christian Theologian Roy Eckardt, chairman of Lehigh University's religion department: "Perhaps it was the normal thing...
...most important message will be that U.S. Olympians must learn a little Soviet-style comradeliness if they hope to fare well next summer. "It's pretty cutthroat back home-you've got no friends when the gun goes off-but in Russia next year, we are going to have to put all of that aside," said Stan Vinson. "We aren't just running against other athletes, we're running against a system. And nobody is going to look...