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Died. Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, 87, British soldier, diplomat and war historian; in London. A lifelong Francophile, Spears was sent as Winston Churchill's personal representative to the crumbling French Third Republic in 1940, later wrote about the fall of France in Assignment to Catastrophe. Spears devised...
Somare's caution was understandable Papua New Guinea has a fair claim to being the world's most backward nation. Its 2,600,000 people, spread over an area somewhat larger than California, are divided into 702 tribes and speak perhaps as many languages. In the past year...
There is also the cost of special equipment, such as vehicles fitted out with secret compartments ("Only crude amateurs use the trunks"), fake uniforms and, for one highly imaginative venture, an electric minisubmarine of the type used occasionally by cigarette smugglers on the border lakes between Switzerland and Italy. Inside...
Their sorrows (and joys) are the stuff of this factually sound, stark, deft novel. A sequel to Author Ruesch's widely praised Top of the World (1950), it traces the adventures of Papik and his wife Vivi. Their lives are as simple and stylized as an ivory snow knife...
THERE ARE INTERVIEWS with statesmen, and they are asked about policy decisions, but they themselves demonstrate how fundamentally low-keyed and human the workings of history are. Events like the British destruction of the French fleet are examined in terms of personal reactions by the French and English. As example...