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With Nagasaki flattened by an A-bomb (code-named "Fat Man"), Emperor Hirohito gathered his ministers in an underground shelter and asked them to sue for peace. Such intervention by the Emperor was extraordinary, and, since Hirohito was believed to be divine, his request was also presumably a commandment from heaven. But his military advisers resisted surrender; a group of fanatic staff officers made a futile attempt to seize the palace and overthrow the government when they learned of Hirohito's decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision...
...Catholic couple. According to his own testimony, he was sexually molested by a male relative when he was eight, and in puberty displayed homosexual tendencies. All of Bartsch's victims were boys, all had been lured away from carnivals, all had been killed in an abandoned air-raid shelter. On the witnessstand, Bartsch described in detail how he had attempted anal intercourse with two of the boys, masturbated over them, then slaughtered the children as a butcher would a steer...
...need for space." He admits that "no one nowadays creating the institution afresh would make a library and museum in one building." But he also insists that "books and antiquities illuminate each other" and is determined to reinstate the plans for the new library. Meanwhile, for want of simple shelter, one of the great caches of world civilization stays in semiseclusion...
Financial support would probably consist of funds for legal aid. A decision to provide sanctuary would be a stronger measure, committing the faculty to shelter the resisters in Andover Chapel when federal agents come to arrest them. According to lawyers for the resisters, the eight are almost surely to be prosecuted...
...cousin of "Mr. Republican," the late Robert A. Taft, and chairman of Taft Broadcasting Co., which owns 16 radio and TV stations and produces Huckleberry Hound and The Flintstones kiddie cartoons; when leaking bottled gas exploded while he was on one of his frequent inspections of the family bomb shelter that he had constructed on his estate; in Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb...