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Military leaders who read poetry and care what young girls think are anomalous to the American viewer. Felix Greene, a British film-maker who made Inside North Vietnam in 1967, documents an entire society of such anomalies. The literacy rate in Vietnam was lower after the French left than before...
A skeleton unearthed last December half a mile from the site of Hitler's bunker was indisputably that of Bormann, said Horst Gauf, the Hesse state prosecutor whose office was in charge of the case. He said that bone and dental evidence made it a "certainty" that theoft-seen...
The plane crossed the Suez Canal and was over Sinai before the captain sighted what he thought were Egyptian MIGs flying wingtip to wingtip with him. Actually, the planes were Israeli Phantoms alerted by radar. The Israelis were more sensitive than usual to any invasion of their air space that...
"I think the government decision is short-sighted. The immediate effects on the health of the city [Boston] will be adverse, and the long-range effects, if the policies are continued, could be disastrous," Hiatt said.
On Dec. 13, the group made a desperate move. Two of them, Canessa and Fellow Medical Student Fernando Parrado, 22, would set out westward down the mountains in hopes of reaching civilization; it was decided that if in 15 days they had not been heard from, two more members would...