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...morning routine was this: at 6, Kawamoto would rise, put on his school uniform, and walk down the hill to catch the train for Hiroshima. Monday, Aug. 6, was very hot, even that early in the day, and Kawamoto was tired. All the children his age had been conscripted by the military to clear firebreaks in Hiroshima, areas of escape or safety in case fires spread after bombing raids. Not that there had ever been major bombing raids on Hiroshima. While Tokyo and Osaka were being fire bombed by the Americans in March, Hiroshima was relatively untouched, save...
...When the train arrived at the West Hiroshima station, Kawamoto and the other first-year boys gathered outside and, commanded by the senior boys, jogged in formation about two kilometers to the school. They jogged across the Shin Koi Bridge over the Ota River spillway, across a slim space of land to another bridge, which spanned the Tenma River, across another strip of land and the Nishi Heiwa Bridge over the Honkawa, finally crossing the Heiwa Bridge over the Motoyasu River. About 100 meters from the school gate, Kawamoto and his classmates were ordered to halt and march regimentally...
Throughout the day, Mrs. Kawamoto had been frantic for news of her son. She had made an attempt to get into Hiroshima by train, but was turned back at the West Hiroshima station. The morning of Aug. 7 she made a second attempt, but this time the railway station was roped off. The next day she went to the schools in the towns around Ono; she heard that bomb victims had been brought to these schools, which, like the warehouse in Ujina, had been turned into hospitals. On Aug. 9 she got word that her son was alive...
...rtgenwald, West Germany. Brought up in a deeply religious Roman Catholic family resistant to Nazism, he served six years as a Wehrmacht conscript on both fronts. He emerged as a pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic, and began writing novels of protest against war (The Train Was on Time, 1949; Adam, Where Art Thou, 1951), then went on to describe and deride the materialistic, dehumanizing postwar society in such works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963) and Group Portrait with Lady (1971). A crusader for the freedom of writers everywhere, especially under...
...April 1 an anonymous letter writer had threatened to dump "substantial quantities" of poisonous plutonium into the city's water supply unless all charges were dropped against Bernhard Goetz, the subway vigilante who is awaiting trial for shooting four teenagers he alleges were threatening him on a Manhattan train last December. In late April, a sample from the city's water system contained levels of cancer-causing plutonium up to 200 times as high as normal but still no more than .4% of federally established danger levels. Declared Koch: "The water is absolutely safe to drink." Law-enforcement authorities...