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Poland is scarcely more convincing as history than it is as fiction. Oversimplifications and omissions abound. Clearly, the research received from the local authorities suffers from the twin failings of modern Polish historiography: Communist rewriting of history and nationalist bias. Michener all but ignores the division of Poland between Stalin and Hitler in 1939. And he does not mention the Nazi slaughter of Polish underground forces and civilians during the 1944 Warsaw uprising, as the Red Army stood by across the river from the capital...
BORN. To Debby Boone, 27, wholesome pop singer and daughter of Pat Boone, who recorded a 1977 hit single of You Light Up My Life, but has not lit up the charts since, and Gabriel Ferrer, 26, her manager, son of Actor José Ferrer and Singer Rosemary Clooney: twin girls; in Hollywood...
Most residents of Managua were still asleep when the first attack began. Swooping low over the southwestern part of the Nicaraguan capital, a twin-engine Cessna dropped a bomb near the home of Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto, who happened to be in Panama City at a meeting of Latin American foreign ministers. The bomb missed D'Escoto's house, no one was injured and the plane flew off into the predawn darkness. A few minutes later a second Cessna appeared, over Augusto César Sandino Airport, about eight miles outside the city...
...like the inside of a bonfire." Thus did the pilot of Challenger, Daniel Brandenstein, describe the fiery view from his cockpit last week during the first nighttime launch of a U.S. space shuttle. So bright were the exhaust flames of Challenger's main engines and twin solid-fuel rocket boosters, which burn at 6000° F, that observers gathered at Kennedy Space Center for the eighth flight of NASA's Space Transportation System (STS-8) could read newspapers outdoors at 2:32 a.m. Awed by the sight of the flames against the night sky, Flight Commander Richard Truly...
...Thus far all but one of their books have been either disappointingly speculative or based on stale data. The exception is this lively and provocative portrait by Zhores Medvedev, an exiled Soviet scientist living in London. Medvedev, 57, relied in part on the scholarly skills and resources of his twin brother, Roy Medvedev, who has remained in Moscow and is the author of Let History Judge (1972), a monumental but unofficial account of the Stalin era. Roy Medvedev was threatened with imprisonment last January for continuing his research and writing...