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Some Protestants were irritated by the omissions, deeming the Pope less than candid. Nonetheless, the self-censorship seemed to fit John Paul's overall strategy of being as diplomatic as possible on Dutch soil and making more gestures of mollification toward his critics than is customary. Despite the disappointments on the trip, he was not defiant but uncharacteristically plaintive and conciliatory. At the youth rally in Amersfoort, he pleaded, "You must continue to tell us everything honestly. But you must also listen to our criticisms...
Reagan and Kohl next flew to the western town of Bitburg for the reconciliation ceremony. It was this act, symbolizing the restoration of friendship, that stood at the heart of the controversy roiling around them. Buried in the soil of Bitburg were the remains not only of ordinary German fighting men but also of 49 members of the Waffen SS, a branch of the elite Nazi guard that ran the death camps, though the Waffen SS did not serve in that capacity...
...overviews, but it is the abundance of detail that reawakens the sorrows of Old China. A short list of levies: "pig-rearing tax, firecracker tax, opium-smoking lamp tax, marrying off one's daughter tax, narcissus bulb tax, superstition tax, lower-class prostitute singing tax, and, terrible thought, night-soil tax, so that one couldn't even defecate without paying...
...Sandinista military draft and arrive penniless in Honduras. Fundamentally, though, Honduras has cast its lot with the U.S. One of its most insistent demands is for a stronger U.S. guarantee of its security than that provided by a 1954 treaty. As long as American troops are on its soil, Honduras seems safe. Its fear is that the Americans will leave--and the next tanks clanking north from the border will be driven by real rather than fake Sandinistas...
...divided like a sweet drink into little sips, when there is no just before midnight, midnight or just after midnight, when the night is round in some places, flat in some places and in some places like a deep hole, blue at the edge, black inside, the night soil men come...